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 ...

A team of researchers has developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more ...