Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.

At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the ...

Scientists at CERN use near-miss photon–nucleus collisions to create fleeting gold atoms, shedding light on rare nuclear ...

For centuries, the transformation of lead into gold was the ultimate goal for alchemists, a dream fueled by the similar ...

The Alchemy The mad geniuses over at CERN have accomplished what alchemists of yore never could: they turned lead into gold.

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until early 2013, using ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

In the LHC, the world's largest collider, scientists accelerated lead nuclei to 99.999993% the speed of light, sending them ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has momentarily transformed lead into gold, the long-sought-after goal of medieval ...