To the naked eye, the pendant once looked like solid gold, but anthropologist David Peterson of Idaho State University knows its secret. Using a powerful scanning electron microscope at the Center for ...

Can alchemy be described as a protoscience? Do ancient texts with obscure formulas and procedures describe mystic rituals and allegoric visions? Or do they record instructions to carry out real ...

The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

Started in 1946, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is internationally recognized as one of the top publications in its field. The journal's coverage is broad, publishing the ...

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming widely available base metals into precious metals. Early practitioners never ...

Part 1 explores mercury’s long and complicated story from ancient alchemy to modern industry and why it’s both useful and dangerous. We’ll cover its chemical properties, historical extraction and ...

Alchemists refer to their combined practices as “The Great Art”. In this course, we will use metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination, using ...

The pursuit that obsessed some of the world's greatest geniuses for centuries—alchemy and its quest for the "Philosopher's Stone" that would transform lead and other base metals into gold—is the topic ...