Fans of the literary saga A Song of Ice and Fire (or its television adaptation, Game of Thrones) will remember that “Valyrian steel” was a special alloy used to make bladed weapons in the now-lost ...

Damascus swords-- sharp enough to slice a falling piece of silk in half, strong enough to split stones without dulling -- owe their legendary qualities to carbon nanotubes, says chemist and Nobel ...

Is it possible to make wootz steel from drills for metal? Yes, I've been doing this for eight years. We will try to make a Cossack knife from wootz steel. I wish everyone a pleasant viewing, and thank ...

The Mandalorian is tasked with delivering 50-year-old Baby Yoda to the Client, however the mission does not go quite to plan (AP Photo/Richard Drew) The Mandalorian is a new series set in the Star ...

The nearly 700-year-old ceremonial sword, which is likely to be returned to Hyderabad by the British government after 115 years, may have been a product of a local wootz or crucible steel industry in ...

Now that winter is here, and the time is nigh to do full-scale battle with the Night King and the army of the dead, the limited bits of Valyrian steel strewn across the Game of Thrones world are more ...

Micro-etching done on the surface often enhance the "watered silk" pattern of old swords made of wootz steel. Reuters A 75-centimetre long Indian sword made in the late eighteenth century and probably ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) You might have seen our recent Nanowerk Spotlight on modern military nanotechnology (Military nanotechnology - how worried should we be?) and read about the hundreds of millions ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries—Częstochowa-Raków and ...