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From the first seconds after the Big Bang to powering the Sun and enabling cutting-edge tech, helium’s story is one of cosmic and human ingenuity. Born in the hearts of stars and in the early universe ...

Deep within the grasslands of southwestern Tanzania, seven men were gathered on a gravel patch the size of a tennis court. They wore white helmets and yellow, oil-smudged overalls, giving the ...

With a seemingly endless list of shortages of basic items trotted across newsfeeds on a daily basis, you’d be pardoned for not noticing any one shortage in particular. But in among the shortages of ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. When theoretical physicists like myself say that we’re studying why the ...

The war in the Middle East has disrupted the world’s supply of helium. Qatar produces about a third of global helium, but attacks on its gas infrastructure have forced production to stop. At the same ...