June 25, 2025
Tangible Assets

Hawaiian volcanic rocks reveal Earth’s core contains vast hidden gold reserves

Researchers from Göttingen found tiny traces of the precious metal Ruthenium with an anomalous isotopic composition in lavas from Hawaii. The new findings prove that the Earth’s core is leaking metallic material, including gold and other precious metals. Credit: United States Geological Survey (M. Patrick) Earth’s largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox,

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Intangible Assets

US universities lose millions of dollars chasing patents, research shows

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every year, American universities spend millions of dollars patenting inventions developed on their campuses. Big names such as Stanford and the University of California system lead the pack in patent activity, but hundreds of other universities are also trying to strike gold by monetizing intellectual property. The idea is simple: By

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