When two lead nuclei race through the LHC at nearly the speed of light, they sometimes just miss each other. Instead of ...

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

In a recent study, ALICE scientists measured the way that lead ions colliding in the LHC sometimes transform into gold and ...

The classical scientific theories by which we understand the world around us do not hold good at the subatomic level. There, ...

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

Scientists from the ALICE collaboration at the LHC have announced the first evidence for antihyperhelium-4 nucleus detection.

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

Politics and science combined to wipe $225 an ounce off the price of gold in three weeks thanks to war zone peace talks and ...

The dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.