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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Large Hadron Collider created 89,000 gold atoms per second. In a breakthrough that would make medieval alchemists envious, scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider have successfully ...

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

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

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