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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

(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 ...

A team of Michigan State University researchers have discovereda bacterium that has the ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity to create 24-karat gold. This process, known as microbial ...

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 ...