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A new take on the Midas touch - changing the colour of gold - Red gold, green gold -- a ground-breaking initiative has found a way of changing the color of the world's most iconic precious metal. A University of Southampton team have discovered that by embossing tiny raised or indented patterns onto the metal's surface they can change the way it absorbs and reflects light -- ensuring our eyes don't see it as "golden" in color at all.(10.1088/2040-8978/14/11/114002)

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