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Helium plays an important role in breathing devices and it mostly comes as a by-product of petroleum production.
More than a century since humans learned to fly, we need to revolutionise how we stay up there.
Renewed helium exploration in Western Canada may provide new sources to address the global shortage.
Helium lifts balloons and makes our voices squeak. But its supply on Earth is finite and is critical for modern industrial processes and medical imaging in hospitals. How worried should we be?
For centuries, scientists have known when and where eclipses will be visible. They pack their bags, head for the line of totality and hope for the best – which doesn’t always happen.
It’s like one great big distillery up there.
Fusion development takes time. It cannot be developed in miniature and then be simply scaled up. But we must work now, to make it possible to meet humanity’s need for abundant, clean energy.
Vast reserves of crucial helium have been found in Tanzania. Here’s how the scientists did it.
A new scanning helium microscope offers the potential for capturing images with finer resolution than optical microscopes, but without damaging samples as with electron microscopes.
Helium demand is rapidly outpacing supply, cheap helium is gone forever and rationing is inevitable. More disturbingly is that a global helium supply crisis is looming this year. The fact is that the US…
Helium is God’s gift to humankind. It’s particularly fantastic for science and medicine and has allowed us to make an enormous number of fundamental advances. We use it for a whole vast array of things…
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Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University
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Reader in Chemical and Biological Materials, Imperial College London
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Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Director of the John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, Curtin University
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Professor of Astrophysical Science, former director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
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Deputy Director for Research, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
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Senior Lecturer in Natural and Built Environment, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow
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