We’ve arrived at a point of technology where our watches do more for us than we’re actually aware of. Since the development of electronic watch technology around the 1960s, we’ve seen watches grow in both precision and complication. We’ve also seen our watches capable of doing so much more than us than tell time – [...]

Two of the world’s most famous precious metals – platinum and silver – can appear identical to the untrained eye. They’re both shiny, metallic, and gray in nature, and at first glance, they don’t appear to have any intrinsic differences. But the commonalities between platinum and silver end there, as the experienced eye will be [...]

It can be strange to hear the words “platinum” and “scrap” in the same sentence, let alone right next to each other. After all, platinum is one of the world’s most valuable commodities, a rare precious metal used to decorate the crowns on royalty. How could it ever be known as scrap?

Many of us are aware of the pitfalls of fool’s gold – that yellow-shining substance also known as iron pyrite has swindled many gold seekers who were looking to make legitimate purchases of some pure gold. In fact, many of us are so aware of fool’s gold by now that we probably have a fair [...]