by Kathi Leiden | May 22, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science
The smallest known vortexes, with cores just an atom in diameter, have been discovered hidden inside tiny droplets of helium. When liquid helium is cooled to -271° Celsius (-455.8 F), it transforms into what is known as a superfluid, where any rules of ordinary liquid...
by Kathi Leiden | May 21, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science
Perhaps the most interesting fact in the recorded history of helium is where it was discovered. We didn’t find it on our planet. In fact, it was first discovered over 92,900,000 miles away from Earth. 1868 August 18 of 1868— a full 93 years before the first...
by Kathi Leiden | May 20, 2015 | Helium
On May 6, 1937, while attempting to land at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey at the end of a two-day transatlantic flight from Frankfurt, Germany, the Hindenburg airship unexpectedly burst into flames and crashed to the ground. In just 32 seconds, the...
