When most people hear "Helium," they think of party balloons. This article is about the other Helium: a decentralized wireless network powered by community-run hotspots and a cryptocurrency called HNT ...

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Helium is sourced as a byproduct of natural gas, which is produced naturally through the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. It is mostly found and commercially produced from gas deposits in the ...

With a seemingly endless list of shortages of basic items trotted across newsfeeds on a daily basis, you’d be pardoned for not noticing any one shortage in particular. But in among the shortages of ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. When theoretical physicists like myself say that we’re studying why the ...

The war in the Middle East has disrupted the world’s supply of helium. Qatar produces about a third of global helium, but attacks on its gas infrastructure have forced production to stop. At the same ...