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 ...

Scientists have coaxed one of the universe’s most stubborn elements into a new compound. Formed under intense pressures, the newly discovered compound packs helium atoms into crystalline iron ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

Providing a cohesive overview of the latest research on presolar grains and their stellar sources, this book brings researchers in cosmochemistry, astrophysics and astronomy up to speed on ...

The isotope lead-208 was predicted to be extremely stable and perfectly spherical because of the “magic” numbers of electrons and protons orbiting its nucleus. When researchers blasted lead ...

Traditionally, car tires have been filled with compressed air. Air is 78 percent nitrogen and just under 21 percent oxygen, ...

U.N. climate agreement in Japan has been turned into a play that explores the politics and personalities behind the first ...

Under pressure Illustration of how helium atoms (pink spheres) are incorporated within a face-centred cubic iron lattice (blue spheres). (Courtesy: University of Tokyo) Helium deep with the Earth ...

I badly want to leave a much better environmental inheritance for my children and for yours. But it doesn’t look like the ...

A Tory environmental group has said Kemi Badenoch has made a mistake in claiming that reaching net zero by 2050 is not ...

The UK won’t be able to transform its economy to net zero by 2050, according to Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, in a ...