The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well understood and has been used for decades in ...

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 ...

KEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) — The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy ...

In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, fusion startup Marathon claims that they have come up with a method for turning mercury into gold. There is an old joke that fusion is always 30 years away. After ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The alchemist’s dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) — The quickest way to ...