A helium shortage might mean you can’t get the medical scans you need. Here’s why MRI machines need liquid helium to super-cool their magnets. But is the gas really irreplaceable?

When you think of helium, you probably think of blowing up a bunch of balloons. But that's just the tip of the iceberg for what it can be used for. In fact, the balloon market only accounts for 10% of ...

Within the last ten years, Helium One and Pulsar Helium have established themselves as organizations dedicated to uncovering hidden reserves of this element for our planet to continue using.

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Hunting for (alpha,n) reactions: The experimental set-up in the ISAC-II hall at TRIUMF. (Courtesy: M Williams) New measurements by physicists from the University of Surrey in the UK have shed fresh ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have discovered an unexpectedly high abundance of germanium in ...

The post Researchers Find New Method For Synthesizing Element 116, Which Opens The Door To Creating Brand New Element 120 first on TwistedSifter. Just about everyone will have studied the periodic ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

I venture to suggest that these elements, helium, argon, and krypton, in this scheme naturally fall into their places as they stand on the neutral line.

Helium is a chemical element also known as Nobel gas (inert gas), which is available in natural gas form and can be converted into liquid form by lowering the temperature to below-270 degrees.