by Kathi Leiden | Nov 5, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science
Helium is a finite resource on Earth, but the sun mass produces the stuff. Through an idea called stellar lifting, we might one day extract helium from the sun. Helium shortages Every 4 or 5 years, the world seems to find itself in another helium shortage. Right now,...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 3, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science
Could leaking helium be the warning system we’ve been searching for when it comes to predicting volcanic activity? Led by professor Yuji Sano, group of researchers from the University of Tokyo studied the hot springs surrounding Japan’s Mount Ontake prior...
by Kathi Leiden | Aug 26, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
It’s been suspected over 40 years, but thanks to NASA’s LADEE mission, we finally have confirmation of neon and helium in the moon’s atmosphere. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE, pronounced “laddie”) launched out of...
by Kathi Leiden | Aug 21, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
Like any other market, the helium market fluctuates depending on supply, but new research suggests we may have more helium than we realized. Led by Diveena Danabalan, a team of researchers from Durham and Oxford Universities studied natural gas samples from 22...
by Kathi Leiden | Jul 10, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
High levels of helium-3 have been discovered in oil wells in Southern California, which changes everything we thought we knew about the Newport-Inglewood fault line and has reignited fears of another “big one.” On Earth, helium-3 is insanely rare. It is only found in...
