The new technique eliminates toxic chemicals by using a common disinfectant and a recyclable polymer to recover gold from ...

Physics Large Hadron Collider Gold Particle physics Lead Nuclear physics Particle accelerators Alchemy New research, Australia New Zealand ...

An alchemical nuisance Once a lead nucleus has transformed by losing protons, it is no longer in the perfect orbit that keeps it circulating inside the vacuum beam pipe of the Large Hadron Collider.

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e ...

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

Scientists analyzed artifacts from Tycho Brahe’s lab and found tungsten, an element unknown in his time, rewriting our understanding of historical alchemy.

F or a thousand years alchemists dreamed of transmuting mercury into gold. They never succeeded. Modern atomic physicists might do the trick without a philosopher’s stone, but do not think the ...

Mercury is easily able to form alloys with most other metals. It's pretty common to combine sodium and mercury, which can be fun, and a bit dangerous. I did this on my main channel, and I ...