You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of ...

Imagine yourself in a chemistry lab. You are probably picturing a scene featuring a whole load of liquids – fluids bubbling in round-bottomed flasks, solutions swirling in test tubes, droplets running ...

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 ...