Turning lead into gold famously used to be the goal of ancient alchemists, but their modern counterparts have actually ...

Millions of people suffer from retinal disorders, such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. A new study suggests that injecting gold nanoparticles into the retina and stimulating those ...

Researchers have engineered tiny gold nanospheres that can soak up almost the entire spectrum of solar energy, promising a ...

For the first time, physicists have directly measured the temperature of extremely hot gold particles using a giant X-ray laser—a breakthrough with major implications for engineering spacecraft or ...