Owing to peculiar properties, helium has taken both the main and supporting roles in scientific discoveries over the years. Christine Herman explores just what makes it such a cool element. I was one ...

Apparently, the world is running out of helium. Robert Richardson, a Nobel Prizewinner, believes that helium supplies will run out in 25 years. And since no other substance has a lower boiling point ...

Superfluid helium exhibits a range of remarkable physical phenomena that challenge conventional fluid dynamics and heat transfer theories. At temperatures near absolute zero, helium transitions into a ...

"SuperfluidityIs a state in which the viscous resistance of the liquid has disappeared, a phenomenon that it spills out of the wall of the container and spills out, penetrates into a gap where one ...

You guys, that's seriously like the second element on the periodic table. The Independent UK reports: It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is ...