Credit: Getty Images / RyersonClark If you live in an elevation above 6,500 feet, the CDC recommends bringing your water to a rolling boil for three minutes instead of one. Anxious for your pasta ...

Amid political and economic turmoil, Qatar has closed its two helium production plants, Reuters reports. Qatar is the world’s second-biggest producer of helium, the gaseous element that sits at the ...

What if all the MRI scanners on Earth suddenly stopped working? Yet what if all the MRI scanners on Earth suddenly stopped working? This isn’t a thought experiment; experts believe that they may ...

IN the Physical Review of January 15, p. 303, S. G. Sydoriak E.R. Grilly and E. F. Hamel report that on October 13, 1948, they succeeded in condensing pure helium-3. This is especially interesting, ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The purchase of a liquid helium recovery system at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville aims to help scientists avoid the rising prices and uncertain availability of a key ...

Scientists can now reliably chill specimens near absolute zero for over 10 hours while taking images resolved to the level of individual atoms with an electron microscope. The new capability comes ...

A global helium shortage has doctors worried about one of the natural gas’s most essential, and perhaps unexpected, uses: MRIs. Strange as it sounds, the lighter-than-air element that gives balloons ...

Prior to Intel’s reveal of its seventh-generation Kaby Lake desktop processors in early January, Asus held an Absolute Zero event challenging attendees to push the limits of those new Intel chips.

Watching helium gas lift balloons into the air is a lot of fun — or perhaps a tragedy if that balloon belonged to a small child who let it go. And, who hasn’t sipped the helium gas from a balloon and ...

Don't take the current shortage of helium lightly. Filling all those giant Hello Kitty balloons in your bedroom is not the only important use of helium. This element serves very important roles in ...

Anxious for your pasta water to reach a boiling point? You’re probably tired of hearing "a watched pot never boils." That’s why instead we have the hard facts for you on the science behind the ...