Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

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

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

While many research groups worldwide have been searching for dark matter over the past decades, detecting it has so far ...

From the powdered wings of a butterfly to the icy spines of a snowflake, symmetry is a common feature in nature. This often ...