In today’s world, where mining precious metals often causes environmental harm, a tiny bacterium is quietly rewriting the rules. This microscopic organism survives in soils polluted with toxic metals ...

(Nanowerk News) Throughout history, alchemists believed in the existence of the philosopher’s stone: a substance that could turn cheap substances into precious gold. Now scientists from The University ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...