Your old laptops might hide gold! Swiss scientists pull pure gold from scrapped computer parts using 'cheese waste'

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a byproduct of cheese production. This eco-friendly process utilizes protein ...

This electronic device we all throw away hides 450 milligrams of 22-carat gold, say Swiss scientists

These days, there is an assumption worldwide that gold should be purchased for future investment. All the big investors would suggest buying gold as the best way to invest the money. Scientists at ETH ...

4 ways to add gold to your investment portfolio

One of the best ways for a beginner to invest in gold is to use a gold ETF. Many platforms, including Fidelity, allow you to invest in an ETF in fractional shares. With this method, you can own part ...
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Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...
Hackaday

Building An Analogue Computer To Simulate Neurons

The rapidly-improving speed and versatility of digital computers has mostly driven analogue computers out of use in modern ...
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Dabao is a $10 dev board with an open source Baochip-1x RISC-V microcontroller (crowdfunding)

The Dabao Evaluation board is a tiny new single-board computer with a USB 2.0 Type-C port, a 20-pin GPIO header, and a custom RISC-V chip called the Baochip-1x. It’s that last bit that makes this ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...