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 ...

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

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 ...

This past month, CERN completed a feasibility study regarding LHC’s successor, currently named the Future Circular Collider (FCC). Once performing high-energy collisions by 2070, the FCC will ...

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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to smash particles together, but the machine can also perform what’s known as “near-miss collisions.” Pretty much exactly what they sound like, these near ...

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 ...