The next time you pick up balloons for your big party, remember the helium gas in those balloons is destined for the stars. Helium is so light that it easily escapes Earth’s gravity, and all helium ...

A shortage of liquid helium, a nonrenewable element that has been dwindling in supply, is worrying physicians because MRI machines require the ultra-cold material for its magnets, NBC News reported ...

Demonstrating strong electric fields in liquid helium for tests of matter-antimatter symmetry Date: August 3, 2016 Source: Department of Energy, Office of Science Summary: Physicists and engineers ...

Yet even at this apparently late date in the field’s development, there are companies that are still developing entirely new qubit technologies, betting the company that they have identified something ...

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultra-cold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has lost up to a tonne of liquid helium after some of its superconducting magnets inadvertently heated up this morning, physicsworld.com has learnt. A log entry written ...

One of our technicians was complaining about helium. In particular, liquid helium. It turns out that one of the instruments that needs it was low and he was having trouble getting more. My first ...

The end of Moore's Law -- the prediction that transistor density would double every two years -- was one of the hottest topics in electronics-related discussions in 2015. Silicon-based technologies ...

A CONFERENCE on the properties of liquid helium was held at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, on June 27 and 28. Welcoming the guests, Prof. F. E. Simon said that the original plan had been to have a ...

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultracold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers. (Nanowerk News) Scientists can now ...