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 ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

Of course, nothing came of these investigations (other than the foundations of modern chemistry), but it turns out all Boyle, ...