Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine particle-accelerator experiments. The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Transforming the base ...

Gold has always held economic value because of several qualities. It is inert, which means it doesn’t decay (or irritate your skin if you wear it as jewellery). It is relatively soft, so it can easily ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, ...

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have turned lead into gold — albeit for only a fraction of a second and at ...