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

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

Large Hadron Collider have achieved the ancient dream of turning lead into gold through high-speed nuclear collisions — but ...

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

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

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

For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to ...

When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a ...

The fusion reactor’s electromagnetic “heart” is complete, bringing us one step closer to clean, infinite energy—though ...

CERN scientists have turned lead into gold during high-speed collisions, echoing the age-old quest of alchemy.

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