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 ...

Superfluid helium exhibits a range of remarkable physical phenomena that challenge conventional fluid dynamics and heat transfer theories. At temperatures near absolute zero, helium transitions into a ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday. Sign up here. Past missions have that have been affected by pesky helium leaks include ISRO's Chandrayaan 2 and ESA ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Owing to peculiar properties, helium has taken both the main and supporting roles in scientific discoveries over the years. Christine Herman explores just what makes it such a cool element. I was one ...

From aiding rocket launches to enabling cutting-edge satellite technologies, helium plays a pivotal role in this evolving industry, and with the increased commercialisation of space reshaping the ...

"SuperfluidityIs a state in which the viscous resistance of the liquid has disappeared, a phenomenon that it spills out of the wall of the container and spills out, penetrates into a gap where one ...

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 ...

Helium isn't just used for party favors or for raising people's voices to the likes of Alvin and the Chipmunks. It is an important gas used in a number of industries from healthcare to high-tech ...

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 ...