Thread  RSS Researcher developing hand-held gold sensor



# 12673 9 years ago on Wed, Feb 17 2016 at 7:03 am

Hello, forums people. Here's your dose of current events for the day:

Instead of a pan and a pick ax, prospectors of the future might seek gold with a hand-held biosensor that uses a component of DNA to detect traces of the element in water.

Link: user link on phys.org

Certainly noteworthy, I guess.

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honest."

-- Isaac Asimov

# 12676 9 years ago on Wed, Feb 17 2016 at 7:52 am

"There's gold in them thar hills!" Now you can know for sure because SCIENCE.

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# 12739 9 years ago on Fri, Feb 19 2016 at 1:16 pm

Maybe they used the hand-held gold sensor to discover gold in another hand-held device: cell phones! No moar phone chuckin' mates!

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