Gold

Scientists have created a material called "goldene," which is a super thin form of gold. The innovation followed the creation of graphene, a material made of only one layer of graphite atoms. Graphene is very strong and conducts heat...

An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer motherboards. Discarded electronics, known as e-waste, often contain large amounts of gold and other heavy metals. Scientists have come up with methods to recover the...

The price of spot gold reached $2,364 per ounce on Tuesday after hitting record highs for seven consecutive sessions and trading at $2,336 per ounce on Monday. Year on year, gold is up 16.5 percent. The main driver of the...

A metal detectorist in Shropshire, UK, who was an hour late for the dig and had a faulty metal detector, has unearthed England's largest ever gold nugget, worth £30,000 ($38,000). Richard Brock, 67, joined an organized outing on farmland in...

A 400-year-old Shipwreck believed to be carrying £4bn ($5bn) worth of gold just off the UK coast has a chance of being found now that renewed efforts are being launched by a UK company. The Merchant Royal's shipwreck, also known...

The most precious and expensive metal in the world is not gold but a rare and hard metal called rhodium, a name derived from the Greek 'rhodon,' meaning rose-colored. The value of rhodium is far higher than the price of...

The stock markets have been on the rise recently, with major indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting record highs. At the same time, speculative assets like bitcoin and gold have also surged to new peaks. While many investors...

More than thirty thousand objects, including a gold ring and a crystal amulet, were unearthed during a two-year project in the medieval city of Kalmar, Sweden. A part of the Swedish government's National Historical Museums agency, known as Arkaelogerna (Archaeologists),...

Researchers have uncovered an ancient lord's tomb filled with gold treasure —and sacrificial victims— at an archaeological park in Panama, officials revealed last week. The tomb, estimated to be about 1,200 years old, marks the area where an elite chief...

Before the end of World War Two, Rommel, a Nazi field marshal, and his unit are said to have amassed more than twenty million pounds worth of gold and other expensive items while looting from Jewish citizens on the...