by Kathi Leiden | Dec 7, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science
One of the biggest challenges in making a robot walk seems to be keeping it from falling down all the time. But, a walking helium balloon robot? We’re talking about bipedal robots here – the ones that emulate humans by walking on two feet. And despite all of our...
by Kathi Leiden | Dec 1, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science
A new study out of Japan suggests that elevated levels of groundwater helium may serve as an indicator of a looming earthquake. The major earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture along the Futagawa Fault in April of this year may have unlocked a secret to help...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 18, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science
A group of scientists have reported that they created the first-ever helium supersolid, which is both liquid and solid and should be impossible. A helium supersolid is impossible We looked this up and you can read all about the science behind what a supersolid...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 10, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
Google has gone to the UN for help in bringing its Internet balloons effort, dubbed Project Loon, to more remote areas of the world. According to Business Daily Africa, Google’s X Lab presented in front of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 3, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science
If you or I or your cat entered a helium atmosphere, we’d be toast. However, there is one creature on Earth that can live in helium… … and actually, we’re not even talking about helium gas. We’re talking about the far more extreme liquid...
by Kathi Leiden | Oct 12, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science
The world has silently lost a technological pioneer, one whose gas laser discoveries led to advances in telecom, Internet, medicine, retail and more. MIT Professor Emeritus Ali Javan has passed away at the age of 89, according to Chuck Leddy of the school’s...
