Theoretical chemists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have found how to synthesize the first binary compound of krypton and oxygen: a krypton oxide. It turns ...

As any comic book fan will know kryptonite is Superman 's only weakness. But now the superhero's days could be numbered as scientists claim they have discovered how to make the real life equivalent of ...

Krypton. The very term has been associated with two major influences in our lives. The most obvious being Superman, a superhero created in 1938 that hailed from the planet Krypton, and subsequently ...

IN a previous letter to NATURE upon the crystal structure of xenon, we announced that we would next examine krypton. We have modified the camera used for the previous experiments by reducing to a ...