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

Other metals might be worth their weight in gold, but can they be turned into it?

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 ...

The gold wouldn’t be the end game, more like a side hustle. The millions of dollars made from selling the precious metal could be used to offset the cost of nuclear fusion, a near-limitless power ...

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

But is there any science to show that metals can be turned into gold? In fact, there is — but it would be far from a profitable business, evidence shows.