Avert your eyes, Superman, because according to news out of Poland this morning, a team of chemists just got awfully close to actually creating the fictional substance of kryptonite. Don’t sweat too ...

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 ...

Kryptonite might not prove as fictional as you once thought, with a new theory having being put forth to create the only thing known to down Superman. That might not be entirely true, but it’s fairly ...

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 ...

Kryptonite – which incited so much fear in Superman and his race – may no longer be the stuff of fiction, as scientists claim they they’ve got the formula for it. Theoretical chemists from the Polish ...

Kryptonite may no longer be just the stuff of fiction feared by caped superheroes as a team of scientists has got the formula! Theoretical chemists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues at the University of Virginia have created the first-ever compounds of uranium bonded to atoms of three so-called "noble gases" -- ...