Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad.

E6, a De Beers Group company, is developing a copper-diamond composite material to serve as a more effective heatsink.

Husband Derek St. Pierre, a former criminal defense attorney who now assists with installation, said he sometimes catches her “flashdancing” around the studio/shop like Jennifer Beals in the 1980s ...