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

In a recent study, ALICE scientists measured the way that lead ions colliding in the LHC sometimes transform into gold and ...

Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) have achieved what generations of alchemists could only ...

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

The ancient dream of turning lead into gold is now a reality – but it’s not quite what the alchemists might have hoped for.

CERN scientists used the Large Hadron Collider to create gold nuclei through near-miss collisions of lead atoms. Discover how ...