The element gold is a pirate's booty and an ingredient in microcircuits. It's been used to make jewelry since at least 4000 B.C. and to treat cancer only in recent decades. It's in the pot at the ...

The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular: gold. Gold has been used as money for ...

That element? Gold. The series, “The Golden Thread,” traces gold’s exceptional impact on humanity’s past, present and future. (Watch the trailer above.) Across five snackable episodes ...

Gold has historically been the backbone of currencies around the world.* But why exactly is that? There are 118 chemical elements in the periodic table that might have been chosen, but gold got ...

A new method uses gold to assemble multi-element nanoparticles under mild conditions, offering improvements in catalytic activity and long-term stability. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The drive to engineer ...

Certain elements (gold, silver) haven't gone out of fashion in millennia and probably never will. Others seem unlikely ever to win popularity with the public (hello, praseodymium). Still other ...