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.

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

The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has accomplished something ...

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

In a paper published in Physical Review C from the team at A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the European ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva Switzerland have successfully realized the medieval dream of ...

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

Ireland has signed an associate membership agreement to join the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). CERN is ...