(Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images) In a bit of verbal alchemy, the Pentagon is turning iron into gold. The Midas touch of Pentagon bureaucracy has just hit President Trump’s “Iron Dome ...

As part of the refinery process, crude oil undergoes fractional distillation in a distillation column after being extracted from underground wells, desalted and pre-heated, before being treated with ...

Can copper be turned into gold? For centuries, alchemists pursued this dream, unaware that such a transformation requires a nuclear reaction. In contrast, graphite-the material found in pencil ...