Xenon's discovery concluded an intense period of research on noble gases. Much heavier than neon and krypton, it had not been explicitly predicted, and was sufficiently rare to avoid chance detection.

Xenon is one of the six noble gases. Its name derives from the Greek word for "strange." In medicine, it has been used as an anesthetic since the early 1950s and, more recently, to treat brain ...

Adding the noble gas xenon when manufacturing digital memories enables a more even material coating even in small cavities. This is shown by Professor Henrik Pedersen and his research group at ...

In an ion propulsion system, electrons are fired into a magnetic field containing the noble gas xenon. When a xenon atom is hit, it loses one of its negatively charged electrons and turns into a ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

A milestone in chemistry was achieved through the use of fluorine: the discovery of the reactivity of noble gases — when xenon fluoride was prepared by Neil Bartlett in 1962 — which challenged ...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has promised to take action over claims Russian athletes inhaled performance-enhancing ...

Argon, krypton and xenon are very unreactive. They replace the air inside the lamp, preventing the metal wire from burning away.

Argon, krypton and xenon are very unreactive. They replace the air inside the lamp, preventing the metal wire burning away.

An inert and unreactive gas may not seem like an obvious candidate for treating Alzheimer’s disease, yet a new study in mice suggests that xenon might just be the breakthrough we need. Xenon is one of ...