Xenon is a noble gas, and is chemically inert under ambient conditions. However, a few xenon fluorides have been identified 1,2,3 with xenon atoms in oxidation states +2, +4, +6 or +8. With ...

Like all noble gases, xenon is colourless, odourless and inflammable — but it is also more reactive, and much rarer, than its lighter relatives. Ivan Dmochowski ponders how xenon, though initially ...

Noble gases have a reputation for being unreactive, inert elements, but more than 60 years ago Neil Bartlett demonstrated the first way to bond xenon. He created XePtF6, an orange-yellow solid.

Nighttime driving these days can turn into a dazzling — even blinding — light show from the different types of headlights available on newer vehicles. The familiar warm, yellow glow cast by halogen ...

Blue, blue, electric blue, that’s the colour of NASA’s latest high-tech spaceship engine, which uses xenon ions instead of a rocket blast. The image above shows the small blue jet of the thruster ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The gas xenon, like the other noble, or inert, gases, is known for ...