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 ...

EAST LANSING, MI – Two unlikely lab-fellows at Michigan State University have teamed up to discover a bacteria that eats a toxic chemical and leaves behind pure gold. Through their collaboration, ...

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 ...

Scientists from Heriot-Watt and the University of South Africa have developed a method to convert hazardous acid mine ...

That faint whirring sound you hear is every alchemist spinning in his grave. Scientists have discovered bacteria that eats toxic material and, well, poops pure gold. This microbial magician, named ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing. Starfruit-shaped gold nanorods ...

Despite gold's reputation as an inert element, chemists have mined a rich seam of catalytic reactions that use this metal. The latest example stakes out gold's claim as a versatile catalyst. At the ...

Metallic gold is known for its electrochemical nobility, and resulting lack of reactivity. Thus, it is usually accepted to be a non-allergenic metal. For this reason, contact dermatitis due to gold ...