Gold hit a record high this week as investors placed bets on future rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. The commodity shot past $3,700 an ounce on Tuesday, Sept. 16, up from roughly $2,300 this time ...

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study suggests. Scientists say that they have heated solid gold for a fleeting ...

Wafer-thin sheets of gold shot briefly with lasers can be heated up to 14 times their melting point while remaining solid, far beyond the theoretical limit, raising the possibility that some solids ...