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 ...

The Moon is no longer just a backdrop for human exploration; it is being recast as a colossal energy bank. At the center of ...

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 ...

A new magnetic switch that controls the flow of heat has been made by Joäo Ventura and colleagues at the University of Porto in Portugal. At its heart is a cylindrical container that is about three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unable to offer the striking visual demonstrations of other security hardware like 4K or thermal cameras or video analytics software, surveillance storage might seem prosaic and unglamorous in ...

When you hit the gas pedal in a car, you get pressed backwards in the seat. That’s physics. So why does a helium balloon dart forward, into the acceleration? Is helium immune to physics? The secret to ...