{"id":145233,"date":"2022-08-31T02:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-form-of-lab-made-gold-is-better-and-golder-than-natures-pathetic-version"},"modified":"2022-08-31T02:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:24:47","slug":"new-form-of-lab-made-gold-is-better-and-golder-than-natures-pathetic-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/new-form-of-lab-made-gold-is-better-and-golder-than-natures-pathetic-version","title":{"rendered":"New Form Of Lab-Made Gold Is Better And Golder Than Nature\u2019s Pathetic Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nuNVbfy9Wig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> circa 2018.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Gold is amazingly weird. For one thing, it\u2019s now thought that much of it came from aftermaths of the collisions of two super-dense neutron stars. Some of this atomic gold, sprayed across the cosmos, managed to coalesce under gravity, get trapped in a newly-formed Earth, undergo a suite of geological processes, and ultimately pop up at the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Its considerably epic cosmic journey is certainly something to marvel at, as is the fact that it\u2019s useful for so many things besides jewelry. Now, as spotted by New Scientist, we\u2019ve made a new form of gold that\u2019s golder than ever before, and it\u2019s bonkers. Related StoriesCosmic Tug-Of-War Leaves Merging Galaxies Gasping For Fuel \u201cHow Do You Handle Menstruation In Space?\u201d: An Astronaut ExplainsEinstein Is Right Again \u2013 Gravity Has Not Changed Across The Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three circa 2018. Gold is amazingly weird. For one thing, it\u2019s now thought that much of it came from aftermaths of the collisions of two super-dense neutron stars. Some of this atomic gold, sprayed across the cosmos, managed to coalesce under gravity, get trapped in a newly-formed Earth, undergo a suite of geological processes, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}