__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 ...

Supergirl recovers one of the most secretly powerful weapons in DC's Kryptonian lore, engineered to store and awaken Superman ...

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 ...

Kryptonite is based on a real-life mineral, and the effects Superman feels when exposed to it can, in a way be justified by science.