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

When two lead nuclei race through the LHC at nearly the speed of light, they sometimes just miss each other. Instead of ...

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

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the ...

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

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

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

In 2012, a new particle believed to be the Higgs boson was discovered in an experiment at the LHC. A collection of photos from the scene that clearly show how amazing the discovery of a new ...