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In 1669, a financially desperate Hamburg merchant and part-time alchemist named Hennig Brand became obsessed with human urine. Early modern alchemists generally believed in transmutation, whereby base ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ceramic container is over 1.5 feet tall. Located in southern Saxony, Germany, Gnandstein Castle's earliest iteration was built ...

The art and science of alchemy has fascinated philosophers, occultists, and scientists for thousands of years. References to this practice exist in ancient texts that appear across China, Europe, ...

For a thousand years alchemists dreamed of transmuting mercury into gold. They never succeeded. Modern atomic physicists might do the trick without a philosopher’s stone, but do not think the result ...

Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford being told in 1901, by his co-worker Frederick Soddy, ...

Philip Ball sits in front of a full bookcase and looks to his left. Philip Ball Credit: Mei de Greff In his newest offering, Ball turns back the clock to study alchemy. C&EN reporter Bethany Halford ...