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

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

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

This is how, for example, a gold atom could take on an extra neutron and then transform into mercury, they wrote. Recent research by co-authors of the study — Jakub Cehula of Charles University ...

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.

Now the University of Cambridge’s world-famous Cavendish Laboratory has a new state-of-the-art home - The Ray Dolby Centre.

Wyoming already produces 20% of the world’s Grade A helium supply from one plant east of Kemmerer. Now it’s about to get ...

The ancient dream of turning lead into gold is now a reality – but it’s not quite what the alchemists might have hoped for.

Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other. But our modern knowledge tells us the basic difference between an atom of lead and ...