A giant, gaping hole that opened up in the Sun's atmosphere has been identified as the source of a surprising abundance of a rare isotope of helium. In late October 2023, the Sun was recorded belching ...

University of California, Berkeley, physicists can now tune in to and hear normally inaudible quantum vibrations, called quantum whistles, enabling them to build very sensitive detectors of rotation ...

Levels of helium-4 in the Earth’s atmosphere have been increasing since at least 1974, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, US that resolves a longstanding ...

A recent experimental measurement has identified a significant discrepancy between theoretical predictions and the observed behavior of the helium-4 nucleus. The work of an international collaboration ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers working with a type of super-cooled helium have made the frigid stuff whistle, an ...

Scientists at the world’s largest stellarator facility, Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), have successfully generated high-energy helium-3 ions for the first time. “In the world’s largest stellarator facility, ...

The long-held, but unproven idea that helium-4 enters into an exotic phase of matter dubbed a "supersolid" when cooled to extremely low temperatures has been challenged in a new article. The long-held ...