For a trillionth of a second, lead became gold in CERN’s collider. The fleeting transformation may shape the future of ...

The Future Circular Collider is CERN's next leap in unlocking the secrets of the universe. Designed to be bigger and far more ...

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second.

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have turned lead into gold — albeit for only a fraction of a second and at ...

The Future Circular Collider would have a diameter of over 56 miles, compared to the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile diameter. Credit: CERN ...

CERN scientists used the Large Hadron Collider to create gold nuclei through near-miss collisions of lead atoms. Discover how modern alchemy became a reality.© FABRICE COFFRINI - Getty Images ...

The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity Scientists have analyzed data gathered from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to advance our ...

Their answer points to a single exotic particle that could show up at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). If that particle appears, the entire string-theory edifice would be, in Heckman's words, "in ...