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.

Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold ...

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

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space— “free-range” particles never ...

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

Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the 'free-range' particles that until now were predicted but never directly ...

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 ...

A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements, and they were created earlier than we thought.

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 ...