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

Scientists have now pulled off the equivalent of real-life alchemy by turning lead into gold for just a few moments.

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years.

Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856.

When two lead nuclei race through the LHC at nearly the speed of light, they sometimes just miss each other. Instead of ...

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

For centuries, the transformation of lead into gold was the ultimate goal for alchemists, a dream fueled by the similar ...

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist ...

Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have managed to turn lead into gold — but only for a fraction of a second. This ...

While searching a field in southwest England, metal detectorists stumbled on the "find of a lifetime": two gold-and-garnet objects dating to around 1,400 years ago. Paul Gould, a new detectorist ...