When two lead nuclei race through the LHC at nearly the speed of light, they sometimes just miss each other. Instead of ...

Scientists have now pulled off the equivalent of real-life alchemy by turning lead into gold for just a few moments.

In a paper published in Physical Review C from the team at A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the European ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the ...

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 ...

If you asked medieval alchemists if they thought their dreams would be realized not by magic, but by giant particle-smashing ...

CERN physicists created gold atoms by smashing lead ions together ... In chasing the mythical goals of alchemy, modern physics is once again unlocking deeper truths about the nature of the universe.

the academic community had little patience with alchemists and their vain efforts to transmute base metals into gold. Any contemporary scholar who even dared to write about alchemy, historian ...