The wispy metal strip in my hands is 8 inches long, 1 inch wide, and as thin as aluminum foil. “Try to tear it,” says William Johnson, a materials science professor at Caltech in Pasadena. I ...
The 19th century was the age of steel; the 20th was the age of synthetic polymers and plastics, but the 21st century will be the age of glassy metals. High-grade steel making and the invention of ...