Stiffness and light weight of AlBeMet aluminum-beryllium alloy (top) from Brush Wellman makes it ideal for rotating optics mounts on Apache helicopters (left). BERYLLIUM IS A MATERIAL LIKE NO OTHER.

Use caution when creating dust from this metal, but know its cycle time advantages when used properly. Even now, beryllium copper periodically sounds alarm bells in mold shops over safety concerns ...

Although it is mainly known for its toxicity, beryllium possesses an array of properties that makes it attractive for a variety of non-industrial purposes. Ralph Puchta discusses why it is not always ...

General Dynamics has announced that its Global Imaging Technologies business has delivered the 1,000th precision-machined beryllium sensor housing to DRS Technologies for the US Army’s OH-58D Kiowa ...

FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ — John Mather, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, is one of many overseeing the project at NASA's Goddard Space ...