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

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

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...

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

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.

Scientists at CERN have achieved a modern-day alchemy, transforming lead into gold, albeit fleetingly, during high-energy ...

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

Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other. But our modern knowledge tells us the basic difference between an atom of lead and ...

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

A research team has unveiled a breakthrough in improving the performance of zinc-air batteries (ZABs), which are an important energy storage technology. This breakthrough involves a new catalyst that ...

In a new study, scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider in Europe have reported turning lead atoms into gold atoms ...