Milwaukee’s new mechanical pencil comes with a 10-piece pack of lead and a built-in sharpener in the sheath, with options for replacement lead in different colors.

(KUTV) For literally hundreds of years, they have been called "lead pencils," despite the fact that what is really inside them is graphite. According pencils.com, it all dates back to England in the ...

Plasma irradiation removes graphite from the pencil lead, exposing a thin layer of clay. By controlling the exposure time, the thickness of this layer can be varied to modulate the infrared (IR) ...

Laptops may have made hand-writing notes a thing of the past, but the pencil — or at least pencil lead — is making a comeback, as UA researchers are developing ways to use pencil lead as a conductor ...