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

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

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

Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold ...

Of course, nothing came of these investigations (other than the foundations of modern chemistry), but it turns out all Boyle, ...

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating ...

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

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist ...

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

Once a lead nucleus has transformed by losing protons, it is no longer on the perfect orbit that keeps it circulating inside the vacuum beam pipe of the Large Hadron Collider. In a matter of ...

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