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

Axions, hypothetical subatomic particles that were first proposed by theoretical physicists in the late 1970s, remain among ...

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

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

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

Centuries after alchemists sought transmutation, CERN scientists have turned lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider.

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

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

The dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

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

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

CERN scientists have successfully transformed lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider by knocking three protons from lead ...