__1898: __Two British researchers discover the element krypton. It's real, but it would inspire fantastic fiction. William Ramsay, a Scot, and his student Morris Travers, an Englishman, were searching ...

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 ...

It's amazing how this week's so-called discovery of "Kryptonite" has set the world abuzz. However, there are three facts: the mineral discovered in Serbia is not related to the element Krypton; it is ...

Theoretical chemists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have discovered how to synthesize a krypton oxide, the first binary compound of krypton and oxygen. It ...

As any comic book fan will know kryptonite is Superman 's only weakness. But now the superhero's days could be numbered as scientists claim they have discovered how to make the real life equivalent of ...

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 ...