Why did gold become the standard for money? Why not copper or platinum or argon? A chemical engineer explains. An element must meet four qualities to stand alone as a premium currency, Sanat Kumar, ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, gold has played an outsized role in how societies store value. It has been minted into coins, shaped into jewelry, and treated as a symbol of wealth and power across cultures ...