Published on: 2025-07-10 11:35:16
They achieved the "dream of medieval alchemists." Goldfinger The mad geniuses over at CERN have accomplished what alchemists of yore never could: they turned lead into gold. As detailed in a paper published last week in the journal Physical Review C, researchers working with the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) atom-annihilating Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally transformed humble lead into temporary gold nuclei. The researchers are part of CERN's A Large Ion Collid
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Through the looking glass: The alchemists' dream, it turns out, was not misguided – just premature. While the gold created by CERN researchers can't fill vaults, it has unlocked deeper insights into the universe's fundamental forces. For centuries, the transformation of lead into gold was the ultimate goal for alchemists, a dream fueled by the similar densities of the two metals and gold's enduring allure. While chemistry eventually revealed that lead and gold are fundamentally different elemen
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Through the looking glass: The alchemists' dream, it turns out, was not misguided – just premature. While the gold created by CERN researchers can't fill vaults, it has unlocked deeper insights into the universe's fundamental forces. For centuries, the transformation of lead into gold was the ultimate goal for alchemists, a dream fueled by the similar densities of the two metals and gold's enduring allure. While chemistry eventually revealed that lead and gold are fundamentally different elemen
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Hundreds of years ago, alchemists dreamed of chrysopoeia: turning lead into gold. Scientists at the research institute CERN have achieved this medieval fantasy—if only for a fraction of a second. Physicists used the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to eject three protons from lead atoms—effectively transforming them into gold atoms. Though this isn’t the first time scientists have created artificial gold, the researchers used a new mechanism involving near-
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One of the ultimate goals of medieval alchemy has been realized, but only for a fraction of a second. Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Unlike the examples of transmutation we see in pop culture, these experiments with the LHC involve smashing subatomic particles together at ridiculously high speeds to manipulate lead's phy
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Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Transforming the base metal lead into the precious metal gold was a dream of medieval alchemists. This long-standing quest,
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The world’s largest particle collider is set to get a brand new toy, named for the oldest guy in the Bible. The toy–a detector, actually—is called MATHUSLA. Researchers submitted a conceptual design report for the detector’s design to the preprint server arXiv on March 26, where it’s now hosted. “MATHUSLA” is a merciful and incredibly forced acronym for the MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles. The acronym is a reference to Methuselah, a biblical figure who lived nearly
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider could eventually be succeeded by an even more ginormous physics experiment, which passed a technical review this week. The even larger project is the Future Circular Collider. The 56-mile-long (91-kilometer) project has not yet gotten the green light or (arguably more importantly) funding, and even if it does, the project’s operations wouldn’t kick off for more than a decade, or be completed by the end of the century. Nevertheless, CERN believes the next-generation
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