Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

They look like pieces of art — they’re quite decorative, sitting on a desk as such — but the small hand-carved objects serve another purpose. They work as pencils. The graphite sculptures, produced by ...

True or false: You can get lead poisoning if you’re stuck with a lead pencil. False. Lead pencils contain graphite (a form of carbon), not lead. In fact, contrary to what many people believe, lead ...

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TICONDEROGA — A giant sculpture of six Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 yellow pencils that were once sourced in Ticonderoga was unveiled before an applauding crowd Thursday at the Ticonderoga Heritage Museum ...

Sharpie, the renowned pen maker, has introduced an innovative twist on the traditional pencil with their new product: the Sharpie Liquid Pencil. This unique writing instrument contains an “ink” made ...

May 19 (UPI) --An Indian man who picked up miniature carving as a hobby five years ago broke a Guinness World Record when he carved pencil graphite into a chain with 212 links. M. Manoj, an assistant ...

A man has sparked a peculiar debate online after he posted a photograph of a piece of pencil graphite stuck under his skin. Posting the above photo to the social network Reddit, user siriusfeynman ...

Humans have not set foot on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, but those missions are still producing surprises. An analysis of a collected rock has produced the first solid evidence for graphite, the ...