The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e. lead) ...

For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the hidden potential within metals themselves. While their methods never panned out, those of modern ...

Fulfilling the dream of medieval alchemists, physicists have observed the transmutation of lead into gold—through nuclear physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle ...

CERN physicists created gold atoms by smashing lead ions together at near-light speed inside the Large Hadron Collider. The transmutation occurs when lead nuclei lose three protons, transforming into ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...