Certain things are handed down from one generation to the next. There’s fancy fine china that belonged to someone’s great ...

The refiners make a call to Anvil Attachments in Slaughter. A small company in a small town, Anvil makes very large pieces of equipment — the buckets, grapples and grabs used in more than a dozen ...

Few gemstones are as mesmerizing as diamonds. Livermore physicists also find diamonds attractive but for reasons other than their beauty. The researchers use flawless, polished diamonds in opposing ...

When you grow up with something as the constant backdrop to your life, it’s easy to forget as an adult that not everyone else shares your instinctive knowledge of the subject. My dad is a blacksmith, ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed the use by sea otters of large, shoreline rocks as "anvils" to break open shells, as well as the resulting shell middens. The researchers used ...