MADISON, Wis. — Looking for a shiny glob of gold thread leftover from a university research experiment?
Apparently nobody else is either.
Thursday night’s deadline passed with nobody bidding on a ball of gold thread being auctioned off by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.
It’s more than 12 troy ounces of 99.999 percent pure gold, and the school’s Space Science and Engineering Center said it wants $8,500 for it.