And if you’re thinking that’s just a bunch of speculative junior miners being spanked, you’d be right — although Australia’s biggest gold producer by market value – Newcrest Mining ...

Paleontologists have revealed a "remarkable" prehistoric creature that has been "spectacularly preserved" by fool's gold—a common name for a substance called iron pyrite. The newly identified ...

The team of scientists spent the last 7 months investigating batteries containing quantum dots made of iron pyrite, also known as “fool’s gold.” ...

Learning that a shiny rock is fool’s gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in ...