The common wooden pencil features a distinct six-sided shape that serves a clever engineering purpose. While most people assume the design exists to provide a comfortable grip, the primary reason is ...

The common wooden pencil features a distinct six-sided shape that serves a clever engineering purpose. While most people assume the design exists to provide a comfortable grip, the primary reason is ...

Two historic paintings at the Abbie Gardner Cabin Visitor Center in the Iowa Great Lakes are getting restored.

Multiple roads in downtown Miamisburg will be closed for the Great Lakes Shrine Association’s Parade on Saturday, Sept. 12. City officials said ...

Graphite, the carbon center of your humble #2 pencil, is also an essential component in technologies such as batteries, smartphones, laptops, and industrial power equipment. Today, nearly all of this ...

A new graphite mine in central Alabama, one of the first to be developed in the U.S. since the 1990s, could provide a critical material for electric vehicles. But environmental advocates say it’s not ...

A diamagnetic substance is slightly repelled by magnetic fields. With a strong enough magnet, the diamagnetic force can override gravity, and the substance will float in the air. Graphite, the main ...

On June 11, UN Trade and Development reported: Global trade update (June 2026): The shifting dynamics of critical minerals trade. Demand for critical minerals is set to surge. Lithium demand alone is ...

This time, the theme is pencil art, but as you can see from the header image, it is not about drawing with pencils, but rather a form of sculpture art that uses the pencil itself as the material for ...

Graphite has always meant gray to us, but for the GV70 Prestige Graphite, you should be thinking blue—specifically Bering Blue and Ceres Blue Matte, the two very grayish blue (or perhaps we should say ...

Genesis is bringing a sporty-looking Prestige Graphite trim to the GV70 lineup for the 2027 model year. Darkened exterior and interior trim, carbon-fiber pieces, and unique paint colors separate the ...

Traditionally lubed bicycle chains are notoriously dirty to touch, and a hassle to clean. Yours may not have to be either of those for much longer, however, if you spring for the ...