The Brooklyn Bridge, the construction of which began in 1869 and took 14 years to finish, used 15,000 miles of hot galvanized iron to form the cables that suspended the bridge from its two large ...

Q. I’m getting bids on a new roof and some of the roofers want to use a nail gun to install the shingles. Is this a good idea? I’ve also heard stories about inferior galvanized nails that don’t hold ...

As useful as steel is, its main weakness may be its vulnerability to corrosion. Researchers in Korea have now developed a new alloy coating that boosts steel’s resistance to rust, by adding a simple ...