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Gold mixes with seawater from rivers, aeolian dust, and hydrothermal vents. It also binds to particles and settles on the ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Researchers have developed a new type of material that’s 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than ...

The ocean holds gold, but dreams of instant riches are far-fetched. While gold exists in seawater, its concentration is ...

A new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who found the key gold-filtering substance in ...

Researchers from the University of Flinders in Australia have developed a safer method of gold extraction and recovery from ore and electronic waste. It is noted that the new technology is designed to ...

Forward-looking: A team of Australian researchers has unveiled a breakthrough method for extracting gold that could dramatically reduce the environmental and health hazards long associated with mining ...

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