Just like a trip to the dentist, it's time for The Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell. This time we'll discuss the element xenon. Also, Dr. Charles "Chuckie D." Dinerstein gets his comeuppance. And a ...

A new study suggests that roughly 22% of the element xenon found in Earth's atmosphere may have come from comets. A new study suggests that roughly 22% of the element xenon found in Earth's atmosphere ...

Read the travelogue of a xenon atom as it journeys from the air we breathe to a dark-matter detector a mile underground. Sure, I was born inside the blast of a supernova. But what element doesn’t have ...

IS EARTH’S core playing cupid? It seems that xenon, a normally inert gas, can pair up with iron under the extreme conditions there. This could explain why our planet appears to lack xenon. The ...