"The fact I love the most is that we're using a food industry byproduct to obtain gold from electronic waste."

A new theory may explain how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth’s mantle.

Gold buckyballs and the nanoparticles chemists often use as "seeds" are one and the same, report researchers.

A gold-based coating that converts sunlight to heat may mean the end of foggy glasses and windshields, researchers say.

A new technique uses magnetic fields to align gold nanorods while preserving their underlying optical properties, report researchers.

A new discovery of how some gold deposits form in days instead of tens of thousands of years could change the mining industry, scientists report.

A new study reveals a mechanism behind silver's dissipation from gold-silver nanoparticles.The discovery could help fine-tune nanoparticle alloys for specific uses.

Physicists have observed surprisingly strong light and high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes, particularly those made of gold.

Love gold but not how heavy it is? Researchers used plastic to create an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold that weighs about five to 10 times less.

Archaeology and materials science confirm the "pure gold" coins of medieval West Africa. "...the process used to refine gold in Tadmekka is real."