Scientists create gold one million times thinner than a fingernail
The authors call this a "landmark achievement."
Tag: gold
Scientists create the thinnest gold plates ever, just two atoms thick
All of the bling, none of the volume.
Cell-membrane-coated nanobots successfully clear out 66% of bacteria and toxins in blood samples
Boy oh boy, am I excited for nanomedicine!
‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks discovered, carries up to $17 billion in gold, silver, emeralds
Boy oh boy, the Spanish must've been furious when they lost this ship.
Research into nugget-forming bacteria paves the way to better gold extraction methods
It's not every day you meet someone who poops solid gold -- but today is one such day.
NASA readies to launch the first half of GOLD-ICON to understand Earth’s outer boundary
Who said NASA can't bling?!
Huge treasure of medieval silver and gold unearthed at the Cluny Abbey, France
Somebody was absolutely minted back in medieval France!
Gravitational waves show us how gold is formed
I was never really a fan of gold, but knowing where it originates somehow makes it much more beautiful.
Why is Gold yellow? Spoiler alert: Einstein again
Putting the 'physics' back into 'bling'.
Gold growing on trees offers a new prospecting tool
Who said money doesn't grow on trees? Take this grandpa!
Viking treasure pot, opened more than 1,000 years after it was hidden in modern Galloway
The first images of Viking treasure, stashed in a pot more than 1,000 years ago and buried in a field ...
How the Copper Age changed humanity
In a time where virtually all labor was muscle-driven, having access to a material that can make your tools bend ...
Foamy gold is mostly empty, floats on coffee
Imagine a nugget of real, 20 carat gold floating merrily on the milk foam of your cup of warm cappuccino ...
The golden enigma: archaeologists find trove of mysterious golden spirals
A team of archaeologists working in Denmark have made a puzzling discovery: they found nearly 2,000 spectacular gold spirals dating ...
Gold doesn’t fall out of the sky – but it’s created in the heavens
Research based on recent observations of a nearby gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B, help explain how gold, silver and other heavy ...
You’re flushing a goldmine down the toilet, literally
At a recent meeting of the of the American Chemical Society, researchers proposed a novel source of valuable metals: waste ...
Three ways gold nanotubes are helping beat cancer
British researchers have demonstrated three ways gold nanotubes can be used against cancer: 1) high resolution in-vivo imaging; 2) drug ...
Sewage Sludge Contains Millions of Dollars in Gold
There are millions of dollars in gold and other metals in the sewage sludge in major cities. A new study ...
How Gold is made and how it got to our planet
Why gold is important and where it came from. All your questions are answered in this article.
All Intel microprocessors are ‘conflict-free’ starting today
Whenever you buy an electronic, that 'Made in ' label only shows where it was maufactured or put together - ...
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