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 | Aug 27, 2015 | Helium, Helium News
Thanks to a legendary explorer and the Internet, the helium-powered USS Macon that crashed into the sea in 1935 can be explored by us all. (Footage below) A helium-powered aircraft carrier The USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a helium-powered Navy airship that was designed to...
