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Let’s be perfectly clear on this. Gold-plating anything, be it a phone, or a toilet, or a smartwatch, is a terrible…

That little bead right there? That’s all the gold in four and a half pounds of electronics waste. And it took so…

Metallurgist Grigory Raykhtsaum shows Smithsonian three different ways to test if something is solid gold: a color…

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Over the last year, Apple processed 90 million pounds of electronics that were unwanted or broken. It turns out they…

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Where does gold come from? The answer: space, basically. Supernovae, specifically. Alchemy, sort of. So gold doesn’t…

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Believe it or not, when you suspend gold in water, it can turn a lilac-blue color. You just need the right amount of…

We’ll believe it when we see it, but two men, one a Pole and one a German, say they know the location of a heavily…

Starting today, you can buy a gold iPod Touch. It’s actually not as lame as it sounds. Beneath its golden shell, the…

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Back in 1904, placer miners combed the Shoshone River for any trace of precious metals. With gold and silver found…

One of the reasons I desperately want to time travel is to blow the minds of people in the past with just the…

The picture above is terrible. It shows the catastrophic effects of the deforestation caused by the current gold…

As far as Apple announcements go, today's "Spring Forward" event was decidedly lacking in big reveals. The only r…