Peter Klavins in the Helium Recovery Facility at the UC Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy. The new facility allows researchers to save on helium, which is limited in supply and increasing in ...

A cobalt-based compound that cools itself to fractions of a degree above absolute zero through magnetic field manipulation could offer a practical alternative to helium-3-dependent refrigeration ...

Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...

A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

Over a third of world’s helium supply originates from the Gulf state of Qatar where drone attacks have already shut down a key LNG manufacturing facility for which helium is a by-product.

Helium atom precision measurements and calculations have a history of nearly a century. In the 1960s, theorists discovered that the fine-structure split (23P0-23P2) of the 23P energy level of helium ...

Harvard is running out of helium — and it is no laughing matter. A global helium shortage is affecting all sorts of consumers, ranging from the National Weather Service, to party-supply stores, to ...

Physicists from Japan have taken to the skies to grow crystals in zero gravity. Helium crystals were grown using high pressures, extremely low temperatures (0.6K/-272°C) and by splashing them with a ...

When you hit the gas pedal in a car, you get pressed backwards in the seat. That’s physics. So why does a helium balloon dart forward, into the acceleration? Is helium immune to physics? The secret to ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...