For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

In near-miss collisions between heavy lead atoms, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have detected the real-world ...

Buried deep in the ice in the Antarctic are "eyes" that can see elementary particles called neutrinos, and what they've ...

In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new ...

Atoms come together in hopes of becoming more stable, thus making some of the most essential compounds we know today – carbon dioxide, water, salt, and acids. Atomic elements are arranged on the ...

Physicists at the LHC have created gold nuclei from lead atoms through high-energy collisions, achieving a feat once thought to be the realm of alchemy.

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

He told me that protons – along with neutrons – form the nucleus in the middle of an atom. “Atoms make up all the stuff that we see,” Corbin said. “An atom has neutrons and protons in ...

Elements are determined by their number of protons. But when atoms take on extra neutrons, they might become ... history of our galaxy,” Patel tells Science’s Jenna Ahart.

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...