The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

A research team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has investigated a new method to produce iron, the main component ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

Since the start of 2025, prices of iron ore has been virtually glued to the $100 mark, where it opened the year.

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...