The next time you pick up balloons for your big party, remember the helium gas in those balloons is destined for the stars. Helium is so light that it easily escapes Earth’s gravity, and all helium ...
FRANKLIN -- It'll cost you more to get balloons for your graduation party -- if the store can fill them at all. The price of helium is on the rise and may not come down anytime soon -- and it's ...
Sophia E. Hayes and her research group at Washington University in St. Louis depend on liquid helium to cool the magnets in their nuclear magnetic resonance instruments to a superconducting ...
The price of helium has surged 500 per cent in the past 15 years as researchers struggle to find more of it (alexsfoto/istock) The world's helium supply is on course to run out within a decade unless ...
In America, helium is running out of gas. The uplifting element is being depleted so rapidly in the world's largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Texas, that supplies are expected to be depleted there ...
CORRECTION: This story was updated on Feb. 5, 2013, to state that helium is an element, not a molecule. Last July, Martha Morton, director of research instrumentation at the University of Nebraska, ...
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