Harvard is running out of helium — and it is no laughing matter. A global helium shortage is affecting all sorts of consumers, ranging from the National Weather Service, to party-supply stores, to ...

John Reppy, John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts & Sciences, has received the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed ...

It’s still early days for quantum computing, but we’re currently seeing rapid improvements in the underlying hardware and software foundations for this new computing paradigm. Just like during the ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the unpredictable ripples that shape tsunamis, tides, and turbulent flows. Now, ...

GOLDEN, Colorado — Interlune, a Seattle-based company of former Blue Origin technologists, has set its sights on the moon’s supply of Helium-3 — a rare heavy isotope deposited into lunar regolith by ...

Finnish cryocooler manufacturer Bluefors has signed an agreement to secure a long-term supply of helium-3 harvested from the Moon. Yes, you heard right. No one has set up shop to mine on the moon and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A rare form of helium may have flooded Earth’s core during the ...

A drop of liquid helium cooled to an extremely low temperature can be made to float in a vacuum for an indefinitely long time. In this state, it could serve as a powerful mini-laboratory for ...

But that’s only part of the Rutgers University physicist’s helium woes. A shortage of the noble gas has meant she can operate only one or two of the four scanning tunneling microscopes in her lab, ...

Helium-3 is a rare isotope of the noble gas with applications in quantum physics, medical imaging, and nuclear threat detection. It's also now in very short supply. At the 2011 AAAS meeting, a panel ...

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