Researchers at CERN's ALICE experiment detected the conversion of lead into gold (and other elements) in high-energy collisions of lead nuclei. This process, known as nuclear fragmentation, occurs when lead nuclei are smashed together at nearly the speed of light, producing a range of lighter nuclei, including gold. While this might seem like "modern-day alchemy," it's a fundamentally different process from the medieval alchemists' quest to turn lead into gold through chemic