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

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

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

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

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

For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed ...

While the dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true, their hopes of riches have once again been dashed,” CERN ...

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

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.

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

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