In the 1920s, Frederick Soddy, Hantaro Nagaoka, Francis Aston and Fritz Haber were among those who debated whether mercury had been chemically transmuted to gold. In the early days of radiochemistry, almost anything seemed possible.
chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-19…

Well chuffed with the latest issue of Ambix.
cc Victoria Finlay

Ah, that was the kind of question (pre-LLMs) that eventually led me here.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

I just learnt about this paper, which I gather identifies what might be quite a common situation in drug development: the drug was devised to hit a particular target, and it works - but still does when the target is knocked out. Oh boy, I have questions.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This is a wild tale that I only discovered recently. Enjoy!