Germanium. It might sound like just another periodic table entry (number 32, to be exact), but in the world of infrared light, it’s anything but ordinary. A recent video by [The Action Lab] dives into ...

In my opinion every Bonneville or lakes race car should have gold leaf race numbers on the sides. It just looks "right." But just how is that "turned" gold leaf applied? With a race car needing ...

In the 1700s, there were about 300 artisans making gold leaf in the city. Now there is just Marino Menegazzo, who is also one of very few remaining in Europe. Marino Menegazzo held an ingot of gold.

Many residents of Humboldt County are proud to work in industries that go back for generations — fishing, timber, agriculture. But few can claim they’re practitioners of a technique as old as Chuck ...

Centuries ago, farmers washing their produce in the spring at their local shrine observed glints of gold left in the water and realized there was gold in the soil their crops were grown in. The area ...