Gold does not readily lend itself to being turned into long, thin threads. But researchers have now managed to create gold nanowires and develop soft electrodes that can be connected to the nervous ...

An artisan applies a gold leaf to wood by using the "guazzo" technique, burnishing the gold leaf with an agate, in a workshop of Florence. Gold is the most malleable element, according to Mike ...

In a nutshell: When you think of gold, images of jewelry or bullion probably come to mind. But a team from Linköping University in Sweden has used the metal to create electrodes for interfacing with ...

Jewelry designer Carolyn Tyler has been exhibiting her work at Dan Telleen’s Karats Vail for 23 years. Though it was rumored that she was retiring a couple of years ago, she is back at it, with new ...

The soft electrodes developed by Klas Tybrandt's research group at Linköping University are stretchable to follow the body's movements without damaging tissue. They consist of extremely thin threads ...