There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

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

While their methods never panned out, those of modern science finally have. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — have ...

Once a lead nucleus has transformed by losing protons, it is no longer on the perfect orbit that keeps it circulating inside the vacuum beam pipe of the Large Hadron Collider. In a matter of ...