The great high-energy write-off. When a distinguished panel of scientists led by Stanford University physicist Stanley Wojcicki was assessing the future of US high-energy physics in 1983, Fermilab ...

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.

I’ve been working on STAR for, like, 13 years, and so I have fond memories of sitting in the control room with friends from all over the world eating, you know, really salty snacks to stay awake ...

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e ...

The world’s largest particle collider is set to get a brand new toy, named for the oldest guy in the Bible. The toy–a detector, actually—is called MATHUSLA.

Zardoshti leads me inside, past a control room that wouldn’t look out of place in a moon-landing documentary, ... Once they’re ready, the shorter collider unloads them into the longer one.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) remains one of the pinnacles of scientific and technological innovation, but physicists believe there’s room for improvement. And after years of research and ...

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 ...

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.

The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters and currently available on the arXiv preprint ...

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.