Battle of the elements: iron gave us skyscrapers and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Both isotopes of helium share one bizarre property: superfluidity. Below 4.2 K, helium-4 becomes a liquid ...

When Qatar started up a giant helium plant in 2013, it was seen as a step toward more stability in the helium supply. Now all of that, if you’ll forgive the pun, is up in the air.

Helium is the second-most common element in the cosmos, but it's far rarer on planet Earth. As part of our celebration of the periodic table's 150th birthday, reporter Geoff Brumfiel shares a ...

They turned to helium because this element's atoms come together into a superfluid state at temperatures that are relatively easy to generate, Gessner told Live Science — about 2 Kelvin, or ...

After the Big Bang, the Universe was 99.999999% hydrogen and helium: the lightest two elements of all. Billions of years later, there's a new contender in town.

Out of Our Element: 5 Things to Know About Helium During the Global Shortage Party City has partially blamed the helium shortage for the closure 5% of its 870 locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Liquid helium, the coldest element on Earth, is needed to keep the magnets in MRI machines running. Without it, doctors would lose a critical medical tool.

A volcanic region of Tanzania contains more than a trillion liters of helium gas, enough to fill 1.2 million medical MRI scanners — or hundreds of billions of balloons, researchers report.

Helium: A colorless, inert gaseous element that is a trace constituent of the atmosphere, amounting to only 0.000524 percent by volume of dry air. Its existence on the sun was recognized before ...