The development involved hitting gold nanoparticles with just one laser pulse. Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) ...

This dig turned out to be more dangerous than I ever imagined. Deep inside this giant hole, I stumbled across valuable ...

Scientists find bacteria inside Norway spruce needles that can turn dissolved gold into solid nanoparticles.

Nearby, the Plumas County Museum offers a deep dive into the region’s rich history, from Native American artifacts to mining equipment that helped shape California’s destiny. The docents don’t just ...

Here are the best things to do this week, according to our editors: Sip on Black Gold stout, peruse art at Gallery Night & ...

A helicopter fitted with a device that looks something like a mosquito’s proboscis will be flying over parts of Baker County ...

Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – including cancers. If the radiation is delivered precisely to where cancer ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize - some of them make gold. Scientists in Finland found gold particles inside Norway spruce ...

When an investment does as well as or better than you hoped it would, what do you do next? That’s the dilemma for gold investors, who have seen prices for the precious metal settle at record highs ...

China announces that the Wangu gold deposit in Hunan could contain more than 1,000 tons of gold, according to initial ...

Fossils of a mastodon, a giant prehistoric relative of today's elephants, have been discovered at an artisanal gold mine in central Colombia in a find which researchers say could herald a trove of ...