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For more than a year, the fate of the Federal Helium Reserve, one of the world’s largest and most dependable suppliers of helium, has been uncertain. The mammoth underground structure is comprised of ...

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Conservation of the helium resources of the U. S. as an American monopoly for both war and peace purposes is the object of bills to be introduced at the present session of Congress. Dr. S. C. Lind, ...

An international team has observed gigantic clouds of helium escaping from the exoplanet WASP-107b. Obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope, these observations could be modelled thanks to ...

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A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium-3 is ...

Scientists have coaxed one of the universe’s most stubborn elements into a new compound. Formed under intense pressures, the newly discovered compound packs helium atoms into crystalline iron, ...

Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a ...

Oliver Warr – University of Ottawa; AEL AMS Laboratory. When you think of uses for helium, birthday balloons (and inhaling them for chipmunk voices) may come to mind. But it’s actually a highly valued ...

We haven’t mined on the moon yet, but companies are already buying its resources. Finnish tech firm Bluefors, a maker of ultracold refrigerator systems critical for quantum computing, has purchased ...