Tag: gold
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Nation & World
Are you sure diamonds are forever?
State of the Art Jewelry Summit draws artists, executives, and scientists to discuss the jewelry industry’s challenges.
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Nation & World
Learning catalysts’ secrets
Cynthia Friend, who recently received a multimillion dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, is well positioned to help “change the face and carbon footprint of the chemical industries sector,” one of her team’s goals.
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Nation & World
All told in gold
While Harvard is known for its trademark crimson, it’s the flourishes of amber and suntanned illuminations scattered across campus that surprise and resonate.
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Nation & World
The next gold rush: Outer space?
New observations confirm that colliding neutron stars create short gamma-ray bursts, and such collisions produce rare heavy elements, including gold. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe the Earth’s gold likely came from colliding neutron stars.