The growing scarcity and geopolitical entanglements of these rare gases are now prompting high-tech industries to rethink their sourcing strategies and compelling suppliers to diversify their ...

Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited controversy in the mountaineering world.

Posiva has completed Finland’s first copper canister blank for nuclear waste disposal at the Onkalo repository.

History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

The catch: They breathed canisters of pure oxygen, ... they paid a reported $153,000 each for a bespoke protocol that included inhaling xenon gas to help them adjust more rapidly. Meanwhile, ...

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It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably linked. In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a ...

Xenon gas-fuelled Everest summit sparks debate among mountaineers. On Air; ... and you still need to have camps and gas canisters and oxygen bottles carried for the summit." ...

Xenon is expensive, which has limited its use as an anesthetic and in athletics. But more people will probably shell out for the gas, given that the baseline cost of climbing Mount Everest is so ...

The use of xenon gas by a group of British mountaineers before they began an expedition to climb the world's highest mountain in less than five days has raised questions about its effectiveness ...