Impossible alloys: How to make never-before-seen metals

Forging aheadKrisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBy James Mitchell CrowONE OF the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered lies off the southern coast of Turkey. First glimpsed by a young sponge diver in 1982, it was carrying a curious cargo: 9 tonnes of copper and 1 tonne of tin. A curious. view full post