Next month, the city of Encinitas will consider a ban on helium-filled balloons, a proposal that has garnered more support letters than any topic ever heard by the environmental commission. Some ...

A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space--is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories. "It's called an ...

A drop of liquid helium cooled to an extremely low temperature can be made to float in a vacuum for an indefinitely long time. In this state, it could serve as a powerful mini-laboratory for ...

Based in the little mountain village of Åre, in northern Sweden, Peak Performance is a relatively young, boutique brand, created by a couple of skiers – one of them a world-class mogul skier with ...

The LHC is one of the coldest places on the planet. Liquid helium is constantly pulsing through sophisticated plumbing that runs both inside and outside of the Large Hadron Collider. Thanks to this ...

In the basement of the University of New Mexico’s chemistry building, Karen Smith punched in the code to get into the lab she manages. Inside, three white cylinders on blue legs that looked sort of ...

The facility will produce over 800 million cubic feet of helium per year—a critical, non-renewable resource used in MRI ...

The key insight behind the device is that sound travels at different speeds in different gases. In helium, sound moves much ...