For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

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DESY's new flagship laser, KALDERA, has now made a decisive step forward: Driving the compact plasma accelerator MAGMA, the innovative laser has been shown to accelerate 100 particle bunches per ...

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Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have managed to turn lead into gold — but only for a fraction of a second. This ...

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and the countless other intellectuals who pursued this alchemical dream needed was a 17-mile-long particle accelerator capable of flinging atoms at each other 99.999993 percent the speed of light.