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 Large Hadron Collider created 89,000 gold atoms per second. In a breakthrough that would make medieval alchemists envious, scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider have successfully ...

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

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

Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally made gold in an effort to mimic the state of the Universe just after the Big Bang. While smashing lead atoms into each other at ...

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

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 ...