Take a deep dive into how eight inventions shaped the human experience forever. You can read this technology tome with us this November. The Alchemy of Us brings together a range of topics, including ...

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For thousands of years, the practice of alchemy — chemically transforming minerals into gold — has been attempted and failed. While it is generally considered a pseudoscience by modern standards, ...

'The Alchemy Journal' is a companion to Jaoud's New York Times bestseller 'The Book of Alchemy' Bestselling author Suleika Jaouad is set to release a new project, The Alchemy Journal. The blank ...

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Deborah Harkness is not only an enormously successful novelist who writes about trendy things like vampires. She's also a respected historian of science — a professor at the University of Southern ...