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CERN's ALICE Creates Gold at 80,000 Nuclei Per Second
9/23/2025
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- CERN's ALICE Collaboration produced gold from lead about 80,000 times per second, winning the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair.
- Between 2015 and 2018, the Large Hadron Collider created about 86 billion gold nuclei, each lasting a microsecond.
- Lead nuclei lose protons to form gold; only 90 picograms of gold were produced.
