Become a paid member to listen to this article Courtesy of Village Preservation The first spot on our list has to go to 801-807 Broadway, known as “The Cast Iron Building.” John Kellum, the architect ...

Iron is an essential trace metal for nearly all microorganisms. Microorganisms devote substantial metabolic resources to obtaining adequate iron under various environmental conditions. Systemic iron ...

Timothy Godbold’s design of an apartment for a family of four in the Cast Iron House in Tribeca mixes industrial charm with modern elegance. Alabaster Egyptian pots in the shelving unit, Alberese sofa ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ...

PRECIOUS METALS currently are the basis of catalysts that are well understood by chemists and widely used in labs, industrial processes, and automobile catalytic converters. But the metals—such as ...