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 ...
The ALICE experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) looks at what happens when heavy ions smash together. Mostly, it is to understand the quark-gluon plasma that existed in the first moments after ...
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 ...
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have revealed that some 86 billion gold nuclei were created during the accelerator's second run, between 2015 and 2018 — all from ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, ...