At a time when most people are avoiding metals such as lead and mercury, there’s a full-out rush among the health-conscious for silver, a metal that is showing up in elixirs and sprays, soaps and ...

Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs)—a major step toward ...

Despite anecdotal claims, there’s no scientific evidence to support colloidal silver as a treatment for cancer. It can be toxic, and the FDA has taken legal action against companies making false ...

Colloidal silver is a suspension of tiny particles of silver in a liquid, or sometimes gel. The particles are so small that they can’t be filtered out of the solution; these nanoparticles range from ...