{"id":634000,"date":"2026-07-24T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=833458"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:30:19","slug":"the-device-in-your-junk-drawer-contains-real-gold-scientists-just-found-a-way-to-get-it-out-with-cheese-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-device-in-your-junk-drawer-contains-real-gold-scientists-just-found-a-way-to-get-it-out-with-cheese-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"The Device in Your Junk Drawer Contains Real Gold. Scientists Just Found a Way to Get It Out With Cheese Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-device-in-your-junk-drawer-contains-real-gold--scientists-just-found-a-way-to-get-it-out-with-cheese-waste-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gold found in drawer\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>ETH Zurich researchers led by professor Raffaele Mezzenga developed a whey-protein amyloid aerogel that pulls gold ions out of acid-dissolved electronic waste. In lab tests, the team recovered a 450-milligram nugget of 22-carat gold from metal parts taken from 20 old computer motherboards, with the work published in 2024 in Advanced Materials. The timing matters [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETH Zurich researchers led by professor Raffaele Mezzenga developed a whey-protein amyloid aerogel that pulls gold ions out of acid-dissolved electronic waste. In lab tests, the team recovered a 450-milligram nugget of 22-carat gold from metal parts taken from 20 old computer motherboards, with the work published in 2024 in Advanced Materials. The timing matters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-634000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}