A worldwide shortage of helium is leading to deflated sales at some party stores here on the Central Coast. Places like Let’s Party in San Luis Obispo say they’ve been struggling to find places that ...

Middletown — Kerri Nugent pushes the curtain aside to reveal her precious stock of helium tanks. The taller one, that's good for about 600 balloons, Nugent says. The shorter one can fill about 325, ...

For more than a year, the fate of the Federal Helium Reserve, one of the world’s largest and most dependable suppliers of helium, has been uncertain. The mammoth underground structure is comprised of ...

In good times, problems that seemed important not very long ago are often forgotten. That is not the case for scientists who use nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in their research. They still ...

Helium is slipping into a new era of scarcity just as the world leans on it more heavily for medicine, microchips and spaceflight. At the same time, geologists are uncovering clues that very old rocks ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials and their behavior using only a handful of ...

Researchers have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials and their behavior using only a handful of helium ions. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National ...