Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and ...

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Learn how nitrogen and helium end up in lunar soil, and why this helps us understand planetary habitability.

Lunar rocks are famously dry. They contain almost none of the volatile elements that easily escape into space, such as ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in Research PlanetS has observed giant clouds of helium escaping from the ...

Things are looking up for Minnesota's nascent helium industry, because miners keep going down to find more of it. Nearly two years after first making the discovery with its Jetstream 1 well, engineers ...

Yet even at this apparently late date in the field’s development, there are companies that are still developing entirely new qubit technologies, betting the company that they have identified something ...

In an emotional scene in the Apple TV show “Stick,” the manager of a party supply store explains to a skeptical friend why she’s investing her recent windfall into helium stock. “It’s more than party ...

During the August 18, 1868 total solar eclipse, both Pierre Jules César Janssen and J. Norman Lockyer independently observed a novel spectral line emanating from the Sun. Lockyer attributed this ...

Abstract: Results are reported on the detailed measurements of the operating characteristics of an He-Ne FM laser oscillating at 6328Å. Experiments were performed in both the "phase-locked" and the ...