The Large Hadron Collider uses a 27-kilometer loop on the French-Swiss border. Black holes are created when stars larger than the sun collapse on themselves, generating so much gravity that even ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, is back online, as is the usual hype that it will destroy the world. (It won't.) ...

The Large Hadron Collider has led to groundbreaking discoveries, but scientists are now focused on an even larger project—a 91-kilometer ring buried beneath the Swiss-French countryside. This ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the ancient alchemists’ dream by turning lead into gold, showcasing nuclear transmutation in high-energy collisions. The post Scientists ...

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second.

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector assembly is pictured in a tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), during maintenance works on ...

In a breakthrough that would make medieval alchemists envious, scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider have successfully transformed lead into gold, producing 89,000 atoms per second.

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond. Instead of alchemy ...

Elon Musk shared a meme on Sunday, Aug. 21, which termed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border a “demonic” technology. What Happened: Musk posted a tweet resplendent with ...

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.

A brotherly research duo has discovered that when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces top quarks -- the heaviest known fundamental particles -- it regularly creates a property known as magic.

Colliding muons could lead to new discoveries – and for a fraction of the cost of facilities like the Large Hadron Collider ...