One of the ultimate goals of medieval alchemy has been realized, but only for a fraction of a second. Scientists with the ...

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

Large Hadron Collider have achieved the ancient dream of turning lead into gold through high-speed nuclear collisions — but ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed, for the first time, the direct measurement of lead being ...

For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed ...

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have ...