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Bling! Researchers create 24k gold in the lab

To put it lightly, something sensational happens upon feeding large concentrations of toxic gold chloride (also known as liquid gold) to the bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans. After about a week's time, the bacterium creates a 24-karat gold nugget from the digested toxins.

"Microbial alchemy is what we're doing, transforming gold from something that has no value into a solid, precious metal that's valuable," said Kazem Kashefi, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State University, where the research is taking place. … Read more

Transmute Portable

If you happen to have bookmarked a lot of sites using one browser and wanted to use a different one to visit those same sites, there is now no need to find and bookmark them again. Transmute Portable from Darq Software is free software that will do it for you.

The standalone application, which doesn't need to be installed, presents a simple interface that requires little, if any, explanation. Just tell it where to get the bookmarks (Source) and where to put it (Target), hit Export, and it's done. The software supports all the major browsers. There is … Read more