The story of xenon begins in 1894 when Lord Rayleigh and ... They noted that the most striking feature of this new gas was the beautiful blue glow from the discharge tube. Ramsay and Travers wanted to ...

An inert and unreactive gas may not seem like an obvious candidate for treating Alzheimer's disease, yet a new study in mice ...

Researchers are now looking to xenon — a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that showed protective effects in the brain when inhaled by mice. A clinical trial at Brigham and Women’s ...

A xenon flash consists of a small glass tube filled with xenon gas. When a very high voltage current of electricity is applied, the tube emits a very bright - but very brief - flash of white light.

Also called "gas discharge display," a plasma display was an earlier flat-screen technology that used tiny cells lined with phosphor that were full of inert ionized gas (typically a mix of xenon ...