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

Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold ...

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

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

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

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

Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine particle ...

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after the Big Bang, physicists working on the ALICE experiment at the Large ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of ...

In a new study, scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider in Europe have reported turning lead atoms into gold atoms ...

Physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have performed a rare trick. In high-energy collisions of lead ...

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