This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

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Alchemy in the Middle Ages was more than just the pursuit of gold – it was a blend of science, mysticism, and philosophy that captured the imagination of scholars across Europe. In this episode, we ...

And thanks to a study published in Heritage Science, we now know a little bit more about the secrets of one alchemist in particular. It turns out that Tycho Brahe, mostly known for his study of ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.