Canadian rock legend Neil Young once wrote that rust never sleeps. Young used rust as a metaphor for artistic complacency, an ...

Iron dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or -- a surprising new study finds -- float up uncorroded from the sea ...

Scientists have developed an air-breathing battery that uses the chemical energy generated by the oxidation of iron plates that are exposed to the oxygen in the air -- a process similar to rusting. A ...

This unusual discovery comes from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. What has been observed is the sign of iron reacting with oxygen and forming rouging. Yet how can this be happening if the Moon is ...