We'd hate to burst anybody's balloon, but the world is quickly running out of helium. The dwindling supply of the inert gas has been a growing concern since the mid 2000s. Now a group of scientists ...

You guys, that's seriously like the second element on the periodic table. The Independent UK reports: It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is ...

North American Helium Inc. ("NAH" or the "Company") today addressed ongoing global helium supply disruptions stemming from production being offline in Qatar, underscoring the structural ...

Apparently, the world is running out of helium. Robert Richardson, a Nobel Prizewinner, believes that helium supplies will run out in 25 years. And since no other substance has a lower boiling point ...

Helium, which is considered a critical mineral, is under pressure as the Strait of Hormuz has remained impassable throughout the conflict.

It might be the second most common element in the observable universe but until very recently, Earth, it was thought, was running out of helium. Aside from its obvious uses in balloons given out at ...

The next hot commodity could be hot air. Helium, used in everything from blimps and hot air balloons to MRI scanners, particle colliders, scuba gear, semiconductor manufacturing and rockets, is in ...

Helium, a non-renewable resource, is used in MRI scanners (which are cooled by the gas), airships and also by anti-terrorist authorities who used it for their radiation monitors. Professor Richardson ...

WASHINGTON — Trapped within a subterranean expanse of porous rock near Amarillo, Texas, is the world’s largest supply of helium, the Federal Helium Reserve. The U.S. government is on track to sell the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. We're nearing the end of a months-long home improvement project that ...

If you watched the movie Moon, you remember Helium-3 as the substance Sam Bell was sending back to Earth, during his onerous three year tenure on the Sarang lunar base. Helium-3 is not a piece of ...