A large industrial bearing serves as the unlikely starting point for this Damascus steel katana build. The project follows the transformation of hardened steel into layered patterned metal through ...

What starts as a pile of worthless fishing hooks quickly turns into a high-risk forging experiment. Each hook is cleaned, stacked, and compressed under extreme heat to fuse into solid Damascus steel.

Inside the Findings That Shaped Materials Science takes a closer look at some of those turning points - the ideas, lab ...

Every weekend from September through April, Dan Olsen teaches knife- and sword-making classes at 4D Blades, his barn studio southeast of Heber.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington to encourage President Donald Trump to expand the scope of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran. The negotiations resumed last week ...

Although this pocket knife securely hides its blade when not in use, you'll likely find yourself unfolding it just to get another glimpse of the beautiful 67-layer Damascus steel it's made from. The ...

I was ready to break free of my father and question everything I had been taught as a daughter and as an Alawite. Robert F.

Syria’s interior ministry said Sunday that its forces had dismantled a cell that was responsible for recent attacks targeting Damascus’s Mazzeh district, saying the weapons came from Lebanon’s ...

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Police in Santa Rosa on Friday arrested a man suspected of kicking the back door of a business and brandishing a weapon, the department said.

The transfer of non-Syrian PKK fighters to Iraq’s Qandil Mountains follows a US-brokered SDF-Damascus deal aimed at easing ...

In pursuit of illegal immigrants, federal agents are carrying the instruments of war, fine-tuned and perfected for killing at short range. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Thomas Gibbons-Neff deployed twice to ...