In a spectacular discovery, the XENON collaboration has just publicly announced the discovery that xenon-124, an isotope of the element Xenon, is fundamentally unstable.

The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP ...

Pronounced "ZEE-non," this element is a gas primarily used in light manufacturing. Xenon is one of the inert or noble gases and is odorless, colorless, tasteless and chemically non-reactive. While ...

Physicists have now discovered the longest half-life ever measured in xenon 124. The element's half-life is many orders of magnitude greater than the current age of the universe.

Xenon-124 is one such elder statesman: Its half-life is one trillion times longer than the age of the universe, and as such, the chance of detecting its decay is very small. “This is the longest ...

That also means xenon 124 has the longest half-life ever measured in a material, stealing the crown from bismuth 209 and its half-life of "only" 19 quintillion years.

Like all noble gases, xenon is colourless, odourless and inflammable — but it is also more reactive, and much rarer, ... In Your Element; Published: June 2009; Xenon out of its shell.

Xenon has been demonstrated to protect against oxygen and glucose deprivation (OGD) in vitro and against hypoxia–ischemia (H/I) in neonatal rats by cyclic AMP response element-binding protein ...

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.

The gas xenon, like the other noble, or inert, gases, is known for doing very little. The class of elements, because of its molecular structure, don’t typically interact with many chemicals.

A new study, which sampled xenon from carbon dioxide-rich mineral spring gas from the volcanic Eifel province in Germany, points to an asteroidal origin for part of the volatile elements trapped ...