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‘Foreign body ingestion’ causes around 1,500 deaths per year in the US alone.
‘Gemstones are the earth’s creation, but they are a human fascination.’
From Archimedes’ principle to mass spectrometry, there are plenty of ways to test the purity of gold.
A gradual drawdown of gold mining is a critical step towards sustainability.
In purchasing iconic items previously owned by other celebrities, Kim Kardashian is negotiating her own place in the celebrity sphere.
From hunger strike medals to brooches shaped like serpents and spiders, women’s jewellery can speak volumes.
There’s 33 times more gold in the average handset than in the equivalent amount of ore. Yet the vast majority is never recovered.
Manufacturing minerals is an expanding field of study. Making more of them could help alleviate various pressures faced by our growing population. But how are they made, and where can they be used?
The president of the UK’s supreme court delivered a hugely newsworthy judgment, but attention focused on her brooch.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old amber bead scam. But humans have been making fake jewels and icons for much longer than that.
Some diamonds come from depths of more than 650km. Tiny imperfections in these gems give us clues about what’s happening in Earth’s hidden geological layers.
Why is jewellery so important to the story of human evolution? Because it provides a public message – even to people we don’t know.
What makes a stone a gem? It boils down to a few key qualities: beauty and durability. But opal, the national gemstone of Australia, is an anomaly - it’s soft.
Why do we attach sentimental value to objects and other things?
Namibian crafters may be on the verge of commercial success with the carving of the Makalani nut. But they are not sure if they want to commercialise operations.
Problems occur when a country falls in love with gold, and silver might be about to get a boost from proposed solutions.
More than 95% of industrial diamonds are synthetic so why aren’t more people using them in engagement rings?
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Finance, University College Cork
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Lecturer in 18th-century Literature, University of York
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Senior Curator (Mineralogy) at the Queensland Museum and Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Design Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Principal Research Fellow/ Group Leader- MIWATCH, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Fashion and Material Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Ecological Metal Design, University of Dundee
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Masculinities Scholar, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor emeritus, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Visual Art, Head of Jewellery and Small Objects, Griffith University