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

The Alchemy The mad geniuses over at CERN have accomplished what alchemists of yore never could: they turned lead into gold.

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

The neutrino is a ghost particle it can't be detected under normal circumstances, and it doesn't belong to earth, but it's ...

The amazing transmutation took place at CERN — Europe's particle-physics laboratory — in the Large Hadron Collider.

After Blackadder’s Lord Percy famously failed to achieve the feat, eggheads working at the Hadron Collider accidentally ...

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