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 ...

Of course, nothing came of these investigations (other than the foundations of modern chemistry), but it turns out all Boyle, ...

CERN scientists have successfully transformed lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider by knocking three protons from lead ...

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

Technology is being pushed to its very limits. The upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN slated for the next ...