Gold has survived in tombs, shipwrecks and museum cases with a stubborn glitter that other metals cannot match. While iron ...

Gold doesn’t tarnish like similar metals do. A new paper says that the key is the intricate “herringbone” pattern of its ...

Gold is the most noble of all known metals – it doesn't react readily with substances like the oxygen that bonds with atoms ...

Gold’s characteristic glow famously doesn’t fade for thousands of years—and scientists have finally found the molecular trick ...

Gold has fascinated civilisations for millennia because of one remarkable quality: it rarely loses its shine. Ancient coins, ...

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

Gold has been prized for thousands of years for its enduring shine, but Tulane University researchers have discovered that ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Labs have ...

Clusters composed of a few atoms tend to be spherical. They are usually organized in shells of atoms around a central atom. This is the case for many elements, but not for gold! Experiments and ...

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have shown that dramatic changes in the electronic properties of nanometre-sized chunks of gold occur in well-defined ...

Freestanding clusters of twenty gold atoms take the shape of a pyramid, researchers discovered. This is in contrast with most elements, which organize themselves by forming shells around one central ...