A team led by Prof. Zheng Tianlu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), has ...

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

To validate their method, the USTC team joined forces with glaciologists Professor Michael Bender and Dr. Sarah Shackleton from Princeton University. Together, they analyzed two 1-kilogram ice samples ...

A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), have developed a novel technique ...

Such a mission could let researchers peer through all the light there is, all the way back to the universe’s very first light ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

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

Could it be that the alchemists’ long-elusive dream — transmuting the worthless into the sublime — has at last been realized?

Why do the best ideas and creative works seem to come effortlessly? The key to spontaneous creativity is relaxation, which ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has accomplished something that once belonged only to medieval alchemists’ fantasies — turning lead into ...

Despite being wrong, the ancient alchemists' beliefs did contain ... Related: 'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physics That means that collisions ...