Transient Treasures: Scientists Unearth Gold’s Remarkable Origin Story
New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth’s mantle. Scientists at Yale…
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Gold Reinvented: Stanford Scientists Uncover Exotic Chemical State in New Material
A form of gold that does not occur stably in nature is at the heart of a new crystalline material with intriguing properties. For the…
Gold Nanoparticle Catalyst Helps Turn Plastic Waste Into Useful Compounds
Supported gold nanoparticle catalyst can upcycle polyester and biomass. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that gold nanoparticles supported on a zirconium oxide surface…
There’s $700 Trillion Worth of Gold in Seawater! Can We Extract It? [Video]
The ocean has about 20 million tons of gold in it — that’s around 700 TRILLION DOLLARS worth of gold! In this episode of Reactions,…
Ausome: Non-Toxic Technology Extracts More Gold From Ore
Study shows new chloride-based process recovers 84% of gold compared to the 64% recovered with traditional methods. Gold is one of the world’s most popular…
Why Are There Gold Deposits at All? Scientists Discover the Answer
Why are gold deposits found at all? Gold is famously unreactive, and there seems to be little reason why gold should be concentrated, rather than…
A Potential Goldmine: “Fool’s Gold” Contains a Newly Discovered Type of Real Gold
The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed fool’s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal. The term was often used during the California gold rush…
“Invisible” Gold – Scientists Discover “Fool’s Gold” Is Not So Foolish After All
Curtin University research has found tiny amounts of gold can be trapped inside pyrite, commonly known as ‘fool’s gold’, which would make it much more…
Gold Rush in the Peruvian Amazon Leads to Deforestation
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of numerous gold prospecting pits in eastern Peru. The pits—usually hidden from an astronaut’s…
Gold Mining in Russia’s Central Aldan Ore District Seen From Space
In places where concentrations of the precious metal have been discovered, mining operations are large enough to be seen from space. Gold has been found…
Colliding Neutron Stars Generate Just Small Amounts of Gold, Creating an Astronomical Mystery
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much … Neutron…
Researchers Create New Lightweight 18-Carat Gold That Weighs 5 to 10 Times Less
ETH researchers have created an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold, using a matrix of plastic in place of metallic alloy elements. Lovers of gold watches and…
Clusters of Gold Atoms Form Peculiar Pyramidal Shape – First Time Remarkable Structure Imaged
Clusters composed of a few atoms tend to be spherical. They are usually organized in shells of atoms around a central atom. This is the…
Golden Future of Cancer Treatment: Gold-Based Molecules That Target Cancer Cells
Researchers have engineered gold-based molecules that target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed, in a critical step towards precision cancer drugs with fewer toxic…
23 Stunning Specimens of California Gold on Display
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is having a gold rush — one in which prospectors can gaze at glittering specimens of radiating golden…
Researchers Reveal How Bacteria Can Produce Gold by Digesting Toxic Metals
High concentrations of heavy metals, like copper and gold, are toxic for most living creatures. This is not the case for the bacterium C. metallidurans,…
New “Gold Nanocluster” Technology Improves Solar Cell Performance
Using approximately 10,000 times less gold than in previous studies, researchers from Western University improve solar power performance with new “gold nanocluster” technology. Scientists at…
Colliding Neutron Stars Produce Gold
Update September 15, 2020: New research indicates that neutron star collisions do not actually produce that much gold. A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center…