Benzer spent over a year tinkering with germanium until he discovered that mixing in trace elements of tin could produce rectifiers that were ten times more resistant than was standard.

An investigation by RFE/RL’s Schemes has found that companies at least partially owned by the Chinese state are feeding ...

which combine multiple elements to improve transmission speed and efficiency. It’s also needed for TV and phone screens, solar panels and radar equipment. Germanium’s uses include fiber optics ...

Germanium. It might sound like just another periodic table entry (number 32, to be exact), but in the world of infrared light, it’s anything but ordinary. A recent video by [The Action Lab ...