MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 4 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * SLAC researchers forge unprecedented gold compound at extreme heat and pressure * By Chris Patrick Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory formed solid binary gold hydride, a compound made exclusively of gold and hydrogen atoms. The researchers were study  more