Follow the mute boy through ruins where princesses once bathed and you will see Edan Chlayeb mining poor man’s gold in the half-light, his fingers sifting dust amid caldrons of fire. Chlayeb is known ...

Gold remains perfectly solid when briefly heated beyond previously hypothesized limits, a new study reports, which may mean a complete reevaluation of how matter behaves under extreme conditions. The ...

Researchers have recorded the most detailed atomic movie of gold melting after being blasted by laser light. The insights they gained into how metals liquefy have potential to aid the development of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. After using a laser to superheat a gold sample, researchers sent a pulse of ultrabright X-rays ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...