It's time to sharpen your knowledge of pencil history! (Bet you can't guess what the first erasers were made of.) ...

Often tucked behind an ear or rolling off desks unnoticed, the pencil is one of those rare objects that’s both ordinary and ...

As of July 16, get the Apple Pencil Pro for $99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $129. That's $30 off and a discount ...

With digital products commonplace, some students have become obsessed with pencils, bidding up their trade value.

Despite setbacks Keeran remained active in the pencil business, work that included patents assigned to the Realite Pencil Co., pioneers in the development of plastic mechanical pencils.

Professional artists spend hundreds of dollars collecting high-end colored pencils because of the thoughtful precision with ...

This article was originally published with the title “Lead Pencils we use every Day” in SA Supplements Vol. 59 No. 1534supp (May 1905), p. 24576 doi:10.1038 ...

Nor is it lead. Pencils have never had lead in them. It’s graphite. I guess saying, “Look at this. Sonja Yates broke off pencil graphite in my arm,” doesn’t sound as good as, “Hey, look.

This article was originally published with the title “Black Lead Pencils” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 11 No. 16 (December 1855), p. 124 doi:10.1038 ...