Pyrite has fooled us again. An atom probe found actual gold inside the common mineral.
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Face masks are an absolute necessity during the coronavirus pandemic. They help protect the wearer and, more…
Henning Brand’s name might not immediately ring a bell, but we wouldn’t have a number of life’s simplest joys were…
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for priceless artifacts from NASA history. First, a moon-dusted sample bag from…
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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…
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…
This is the least dense gold nugget in the entire world. It can be held up with a feather. And it’s supported by a…
Android Wear watches are cool and all, but none of them are especially fancy. (Even the new Moto 360, with its flat…
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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…
Finding gold in Boeslunde, Denmark, is no huge surprise—it’s known as an area where Bronze Age gold offering are…
If you want to find out what’s unusual about chloroauric acid, look at the “Au” in the middle. It indicates that…
Back in 1904, placer miners combed the Shoshone River for any trace of precious metals. With gold and silver found…