(via Periodic Videos) Senior technician Neil Barnes re-enacts a favourite experiment from his childhood, reacting aluminium and sodium hydroxide to produce hydrogen.

Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of home ...

Pop a few aluminum bits into this little RC racer and you’ll have power for around forty minutes. This concept, which has been patented, is the result of a college research project. It uses a chemical ...