One of the things that makes the main particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National ...

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

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

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

The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has accomplished something ...

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

By applying machine learning to detect anomalies, predict faults, and cut radiation, Jefferson Lab is future-proofing its ...

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together ...

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

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming ...

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

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