This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative developed a new method to identify bacteria within minutes. And researchers in California have identified tap water as another transmission pathway for E. coli bacteria.
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