Scientists have now pulled off the equivalent of real-life alchemy by turning lead into gold for just a few moments.

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

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

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.

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

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

As the alpha particles were known to have a lot of energy and the gold ... the atom is the way that most people think about atoms today. It is known as the Rutherford-Bohr model of atomic structure.

Although it has been possible to make hollow 32-atom gold nanospheres ... better understand the geometrical structure and electronic properties of large pure gold clusters 10.

has consecutively removed the innermost atom and the outermost electron of a gold nanoparticle—without disturbing its overall structure. This precise manipulation allowed them to probe how the ...