I've always been fascinated by how materials break down, especially glasses and polymers that don't have a regular crystal ...

During the LHC’s 2015–2018 run, it produced 86 billion gold nuclei—a mere 29 picograms, or 0.000000000029 grams. Even doubling this would have required trillions of years for you to create ...

Scientists with CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, said they confirmed the change of lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is the world’s largest and ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider — the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — have observed a real-life transmutation of lead into gold.

A Modern Twist on Alchemy The idea of turning lead into gold has long been a dream of alchemists. Though the ancient pursuit never bore fruit through chemical means, today’s physicists have found a ...

Thallium and mercury are produced in far greater quantities than gold, but the latter is currently produced at a maximum rate of around 89,000 nuclei per second, from lead-lead collisions near the ...

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 ...

Using an advanced simulation method called the multi-phase transport model, the research team studied the collisions of different heavy ions, including calcium-40, calcium-48, and gold-197.

Traditional imaging methods often involve tracers like fluorescent dyes and radioisotopes, which give limited visualisation and inaccurate results due to detachment from AuNPs. Now, researchers from ...

Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have the answer.

Venn debuted his diagrams in 1880 as a method for visualizing contemporary advances in logic. They then found application in the closely related branch of math called set theory, which focuses on ...

Gold rushes have been a hallmark of mineral-rich Brazil from its Portuguese colonial past. But the latest surge in wildcat mining beginning during Bolsonaro's administration has been unprecedented.