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.

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 ...

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

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

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

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

The post Researchers May Have Finally Figured Out How There Is So Much Gold And Other Heavy Elements In The Universe first on TwistedSifter. When the average person looks around the universe, they don ...

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.