by Kathi Leiden | Sep 11, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science, Helium Uses
Imagine, something the size of a pea worth $5 million. That’s the value of helium-3 and while it’s rare on Earth, the moon is full of it. Why do you care? Need regular helium gas? Just mine our warehouses! Get a free Zephyr helium quote here. What is...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 10, 2015 | Helium, Helium Stunts
Two young girls from Seattle are making headlines after sending a toy and a picture of their cat into the stratosphere under a helium weather balloon. Kimberly, 8, and Rebecca, 10, started out by sketching their designs at the kitchen table. They ordered a helium...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 9, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
Astronomers are using helium-filled hard drives to capture the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole – a feat that proved impossible with regular drives. Mapping an image of a black hole At the top of Sierra Negra in Mexico, a mere 15,000 feet above sea level,...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 8, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
By smashing together gold and helium-3 ions, a particle collider has created tiny droplets of the same primordial soup formed at the Big Bang. What is this primordial goo? It’s the state of matter that existed at the very birth of the universe, nearly...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 3, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
If you have cash on you, you’re have cocaine on you. That’s what new research that uses a special helium-based testing technology suggests. In August of 2009, Dr. Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth presented the findings of his...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 2, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
They might be commonplace for most of us, but when you learn what goes into the making of latex balloons, you’ll never look at them the same again. Latex balloons start in the forest It all starts with a tree. Hevea brasiliensis is native to the Amazon where it...
