Plants have quietly mastered one of nature’s greatest tricks for hundreds of millions of years. Using sunlight, water and ...

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Metals like copper oxidize — reacting with oxygen in the air — but gold doesn’t, thanks to a quick switch in atom arrangement ...

Researchers discovered that dual-atom catalysts follow a previously unknown 'dual-Sabatier optima' pattern, overturning ...

There are several good reasons gold is one of the most valuable metals on Earth. Not least of those is its glistening shine.

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Gold’s characteristic glow famously doesn’t fade for thousands of years—and scientists have finally found the molecular trick ...

Gold doesn’t tarnish like similar metals do. A new paper says that the key is the intricate “herringbone” pattern of its ...

Gold has been prized for thousands of years for its enduring shine, but Tulane University researchers have discovered that ...

Gold has been prized for thousands of years for its enduring shine, but Tulane University researchers have discovered that gold’s resistance to tarnishing depends on more than its chemistry. In a new ...

Water drawn from a living Equisetum plant, called horsetail, has registered the most extreme oxygen isotope signature ever ...

An exotic new molecule is shaped like a butterfly, complete with "wings" made from electrons. The discovery could provide a ...