Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As catalytic converter theft continues to rise, many are wondering why? Within minutes, thieves are able to cut them off from vehicles. It is because of a type of three types ...

Scientists have discovered a low-cost method to significantly reduce this pollution from hydrogen internal combustion engines by improving the efficiency of their catalytic converters. The researchers ...

As if any more proof supporting the theory of unintended consequences was needed, scientists in Massachusetts have found detectable levels of platinum, palladium, rhodium and osmium in the air around ...

BUT THEY’RE ACTUALLY STARTING TO DECREASE AS MOST PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN STEALING THEM OFF OF CARS, I THINK THEY’RE STARTING TO DIMINISH NOW BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE CATCHING ON TO THE FACT OF WHAT’S GOING ...