Peter Klavins in the Helium Recovery Facility at the UC Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy. The new facility allows researchers to save on helium, which is limited in supply and increasing in ...

Helium-3 discovery in Minnesota is sparking big energy claims, but the science, rarity, and real-world limits matter more ...

Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...

Neutron star: could superfluid helium detect gravitational waves from nearby pulsars like this one? Gravitational waves from nearby pulsars could be detected using just a few kilograms of superfluid ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...

Physicists from Japan have taken to the skies to grow crystals in zero gravity. Helium crystals were grown using high pressures, extremely low temperatures (0.6K/-272°C) and by splashing them with a ...

Helium atom precision measurements and calculations have a history of nearly a century. In the 1960s, theorists discovered that the fine-structure split (23P0-23P2) of the 23P energy level of helium ...

Helium is the simplest element in the periodic table with more than one particle in its nucleus, yet state of the art theory and experiments on it don't add up. When you purchase through links on our ...

A rare form of helium buried under northern Minnesota is forcing energy planners to take a second look at what tomorrow’s ...

Harvard is running out of helium — and it is no laughing matter. A global helium shortage is affecting all sorts of consumers, ranging from the National Weather Service, to party-supply stores, to ...

Deep beneath the forests and lakes of northern Minnesota, researchers say they have found traces of a substance long treated ...

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