Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative developed a new method to identify bacteria within minutes. And researchers in California have identified tap water as another transmission pathway for E. coli bacteria.

In some cases, colliding lead atoms produce tiny amounts of gold. This can be detected in the Alice detector of the particle accelerator LHC

Geneva .- For centuries the alchemists tried to find a "philosopher's stone" capable of turning lead into gold, a transmutation that has finally been achieved, although at subatomic levels and in a fraction of a second, in the Great Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN).As explained this Thursday a statement [...] The entry The Alchemists' Dream becomes reality: CERN makes the lead turn into gold was first publ…

Transmutation, or the transformation of one chemical element into another, has always attracted the attention of learned people, from philosophers to alchemists.

What alchemists dreamed of centuries ago seems to have come true: at the Cern nuclear research centre, gold was created from lead. But nobody can get rich with it.

This gold "exists only for a tiny fraction of a second", and in addition the quantities produced are "billions of times smaller than those needed to make a jewel," they explain.