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.

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

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The amazing transmutation took place at CERN — Europe's particle-physics laboratory — in the Large Hadron Collider.

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