With spot gold prices currently over $1,100 US, let's take a look at some uses of this precious metal. Pharmaceuticals Credited with curing or warding off everything from smallpox to measles, for ...

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 ...

Some of the elements the researchers found, like copper, gold, and mercury, were referenced in Brahe's medical recipes, but Rasmussen said it's impossible to know if that's how he used them.