For centuries, the world's great thinkers were consumed by the search for the mythical Philosopher's Stone. Franciscan friar Roger Bacon is said to have penned a formula for its creation in the 13th ...

(Kitco News) - The ability to create gold from base materials has eluded alchemists since the Middle Ages, but two U.S. university professors have found a way to produce small amounts of gold using ...

Researchers at Michigan State University, one from the art department and one from microbiology, say they’ve figured out a way to do “microbial alchemy,” using the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans ...

Microbial 'alchemy' could lead to new ways of detecting and producing the precious metal. Take a solution of gold chloride, a compound toxic to most forms of life. Add a colony of Cupriavidus ...

Researchers from the Michigan State University have found that the metal-tolerant bacteria ‘Cupriavidus metallidurans’ can grow on massive concentrations of gold chloride or liquid gold, a toxic ...

It was the alchemical quest that was midwife to the birth of modern science: how to transform common elements into precious gold. Now researchers have found a bacterium that could fit the bill as a ...

Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered bacteria with the remarkable ability to turn toxic chemical compounds into 24-karat gold. The breakthrough, detailed in a combination art and ...

Molecules containing gold atoms are not expected to form metallic bonds. But there is growing evidence that there are interactions between the gold atoms that are similar in strength to hydrogen bonds ...

A new method uses gold to assemble multi-element nanoparticles under mild conditions, offering improvements in catalytic activity and long-term stability. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The drive to engineer ...

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