Yen-Jie Lee, the MIT physics professor who led the analysis, puts the result in a single line: quark-gluon plasma really is a ...

Medieval alchemists spent lifetimes chasing the impossible dream of turning lead into gold. Physicists at the world’s most ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other. But our modern knowledge ...

Restarting the Large Hadron Collider -- the $10 billion research tool's full name -- has been "a herculean effort," CERN's director for accelerators, Steve Myers, said in a statement announcing the ...

As the old physics wisdom goes, to answer big questions, build big machines. To that idea, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has really delivered on all fronts in its last 16 years of operations.

CERN has begun taking apart the sections of the Large Hadron Collider on either side of the ATLAS and CMS experiments, with ...

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 server, ...

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 world’s largest ...

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. lead) ...

Credit: CERN CERN has begun disconnecting parts of the Large Hadron Collider so it can replace aging beam focusing magnets with a much more powerful generation. The new magnets will be about 40% ...