Metals like copper oxidize — reacting with oxygen in the air — but gold doesn’t, thanks to a quick switch in atom arrangement ...

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A man went out on a morning walk in southwest Norway and stumbled upon a surprise: an elite warrior's sword scabbard that was purposefully buried 1,500 years ago. The rare gold object, which was ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re doing a deep dive on an extremely hot topic: peptides. Hype around these basic chemical building blocks has ...

A towering, gold-leaf statue of President Donald Trump was unveiled with great fanfare on Wednesday at Trump National Doral golf course, in a dedication ceremony that included a prayer from a ...

Coffee might be doing more than fueling your morning routine it could be extending your life. A large-scale study by Tufts University suggests that drinking one to three cups of caffeinated coffee ...

Trace evidence can solve murders—but the specialists who study it are disappearing.

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

The Rold Treasure, which features six gold bracelets weighing a total of 1.7 pounds, was just discovered in Denmark. The Viking Age gold was sticking out of a field, leading to its discovery. This is ...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians to stop buying gold for weddings for one year, it did not land as a routine policy announcement. In a country where gold anchors everything from family ...