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

Scientist’s has found a way to turn lead into gold just for a seconds after years of trial by the alchemist. More research ...

It was just high-speed lead ions, flying and nearly the speed of light and barely missing each other ... nuclei lose protons ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists at CERN use near-miss photon–nucleus collisions to create fleeting gold atoms, shedding light on rare nuclear ...

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.

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

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of ...

Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine ...