Gold stocks were among the top gainers in the markets today, with shares of some gold miners even rallying by double-digit percentages throughout the day. Here are some top-performing gold stocks and ...

“If you make a material extremely thin, something extraordinary happens ... be done in complete darkness. Stabilizing the gold sheets was the final step. A surfactant was applied to stop ...

Last year, scientists created a gold sheet that was a single atom ... the team discovered that the MoS 2 layers kept the thin metal sheets stable. "A single layer of free-standing metal atoms ...

According to a report in Nature(via Interesting Engineering), researchers from the Chinese Academy of Physics can create super-thin sheets, just one or two atoms thick, out of materials including ...

Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even ...

Chinese scientists have found a way to squeeze metals into ultra-thin sheets – no more than a few atoms thick. Some experts believe the feat could revolutionise the way electronic devices are ...

For instance, when hammering out extremely thin gold leaf sheets, they stick easily in low humidity, which explains why Kanazawa City in Ishikawa Prefecture – the prefectural capital and ...