Recently, a team of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

But there is one, which is believed to be the largest gold-covered structure on Earth, and it stands 112 metres tall. The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar is thought to contain between six and ...

Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug cisplatin. Recently, the search for alternatives with improved activity has ...

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an inch thick, and tracing the particles' paths.

Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug ...

Although it has been possible to make hollow 32-atom gold nanospheres ... better understand the geometrical structure and electronic properties of large pure gold clusters 10.

It’s a key component of auranofin, a small molecule drug that incorporates an atom of gold in its chemical structure that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating ...

That the researchers were able to obtain a crystal structure at all is because all their particles are identical, with precisely 102 gold atoms. It was not known that such a large atomic cluster ...

An atom of gold has a diameter of 0.000,000,000,144 m. To write this number in standard form: ...