Near collisions between atomic nuclei of lead cause its identity to completely transform inside the world's largest particle ...

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

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

For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the hidden potential within ...

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.

Moreover, the very high speed at which lead nuclei travel in the LHC (corresponding to 99.999993% of the speed of light) ...

Modern-day science accidentally achieved what medieval alchemists dreamed of doing by turning lead into the tiniest bit of ...

Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally made gold in an effort to mimic the state of the Universe ...

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

While attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, physicists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produced gold by accident. The surprising twist happened when lead atoms were ...