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

Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally made gold in an effort to mimic the state of the Universe ...

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

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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to smash particles together, but the machine can also perform what’s known as ...

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

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

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.

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

For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to ...