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  • Sure, it was just 29 picograms of gold, but it still counts as alchemy
    Physics
    Turning lead into gold (for a split second)
    In studying the conditions that emerged just after the Big Bang using the Large Hadron Collider, scientists turned lead into gold – for just fractions of a second. Not a whole lot of gold, but gold nonetheless.