Gold is the most malleable element, but what’s the science behind it?

An artisan applies a gold leaf to wood by using the “guazzo” technique, burnishing the gold leaf with an agate.
Gold is the most malleable element, according to Continue reading →

The element gold is a pirate’s booty and an ingredient in microcircuits. It’s been used to make jewelry since at least 4000 B.C. and to treat cancer only in recent decades. It’s in the pot at the end of the Continue reading →

Jacqueline Gerson knows very well how “artisanal gold mining” sounds to people who haven’t heard the phrase before.

“I think of it like the Wild West days in the United States,” said Gerson, the assistant professor of Earth and environmental Continue reading →

Painting fingernails with silver and gold by American Chemical Society.
Using metal nanoparticles in clear nail polish makes it durable and colorful without extra additives.

Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and Continue reading →

Appearing on the cover of American Vogue and favoured by Alisters from Kendall Jenner to Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, New York Citybased Brazilian designer **Ana Khouri**’s collections are created exclusively with fairmined 18carat gold and platinum, traceable diamonds and gemstones from Zambia. Continue reading →

New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way into Earth’s mantle.
Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SRI) say they’ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the Continue reading →

Object from the gold treasure from Vindelev, which spent some time at DTU in an attempt to better understand its origin and importance.
Photographers and journalists from the BBC, TV 2, and DR were ready when an armored car drove Continue reading →

Researchers unveil new material infused with gold in an exotic chemical state by Stanford University.

Structure of the gold-halide perovskite is the elongated gold-chloride octahedra, composed of gold (Au) surrounded by six neighboring chlorine (Cl) atoms, are shaded in the Continue reading →

A Norwegian man needed a hobby. His new metal detector found a showy 1,500-year-old gold necklace.

Norway, Thursday Sept. 7, 2023. Bore found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls on a southern island in what was described as Continue reading →

Pummeling storms over the winter, along with copious spring snowmelt, have created optimal conditions for gold to emerge.

In their lust for riches, the miners of the gold rush moved a gargantuan amount of dirt. A prominent geologist, Grove Karl Continue reading →