For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed ...

CERN scientists have turned lead into gold during high-speed collisions, echoing the age-old quest of alchemy.

Türkiye joined as CERN’s first Associate Member State. Now, ten years on, on 8 May 2025, Ireland has signed to become an Associate Member State, and a signature with Chile is expected later this month ...

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together ...

Scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva Switzerland have successfully realized the medieval dream of ...

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

For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

The not-so-mysterious transmutation happened at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory, near Geneva, Switzerland, where the multi-billion-dollar LHC smashes together ions of lead for a portion of ...

In near-miss collisions between heavy lead atoms, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have detected the real-world ...

They are also creating components to help the CERN Collider in Switzerland, which aims to detect new particles furthering our understanding of dark matter in space. Dr Stefan Diesing is developing new ...

The fourth and final fabrication plant, or fab, would be done in 2041, according to an environmental impact report Micron ...