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The company claims it has cracked a scalable method to make stable gold from mercury. Ever since the discovery of alchemy, or since humans thought gold was a precious object, a worldwide quest to turn common elements into the yellow metal has been ongoing. Folklore and fables sing praises of humans who went on this quest and those who received such blessings. No such claims have yet stood the test of science, and this could change quite soon. An engineering firm from the United States – Marathon Fusion – has claimed that making gold from mercury is possible, and they...

Bishkek, 9 January: Europium oxide, a strategic material which is used in nuclear production, has been stolen from a chemical and mechanical plant in Kyrgyzstan. The press service of the Kyrgyz Internal Affairs Ministry told RIA-Novosti on Thursday [9 January] that several armed men wearing black masks broke into the enterprise's finished product warehouse in the village of Orlovka, Chuysk Region, in the early hours of 8 January, having beaten up and disarmed the guards. According to the law-enforcement agencies, the attackers stole 23 boxes with the rare-earth element which is used in nuclear reactions. Besides, this raw material is...