Menlo Park, Calif. -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recorded the most detailed atomic movie of gold melting after being blasted by laser light.

As tension increases strange things begin to happen at the atomic level. This is especially so with gold atoms. Scientists working at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in making the ...

The big rally in gold prices has generated interest in China in machines that can melt down the precious metal and disperse cash. Gold ATMs can melt or otherwise process small items of gold on site, ...