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Getting High on Helium
Getting High on Helium Dean A. Ekdahl Dept.: You Built What?! Tech: Cluster ballooning Cost: $2000 per fightTime: 2 Hours of prep for a two-hour flightPractical | | | | |PopcornAnyone who’s ever been...
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Re-Introducing the Airship
The High Life Matt Stubbington Most of us fly for speed, but French industrial designer Jean-Marie Massaud believes that slow cruising in an airship could be the next step in air travel. Massaud has...
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Congress to Address Helium-3 Shortage Hurting Scientific Research and Nuclear...
Helium-3 Mmm, polarized helium-3 and neutron spin filters Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz A large Cold War supply of helium-3 has begun to rapidly run out, due to heavy demand from U.S. scientists...
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Elusive Flowing Supersolids May Actually Be Quantum Plastics, New Paper Says
Helium-4 Helium-4 is used to study supersolids, a strange phenomenon in quantum mechanics. A Cornell professor is challenging the accepted view of supersolid experiments, suggesting a new phenomenon...
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In The Future, This Balloon Will Cost $100
Helium Balloon sfrancisball (CC licensed) The world is running short on several metals, but perhaps more disconcerting is the impending loss of the noble helium. The stuff of birthday balloons,...
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Using Muons as a Disguise, Chemists Fool Helium Into Thinking It's Hydrogen
Hydrogen Orbitals Wikipedia Chemists have messed with the constituent parts of a helium atom and fooled it into behaving like it was hydrogen. This form of alchemy allows a physical test of how atomic...
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New Buoyant-Aircraft Design Could Lead to Fleets of Efficient Cargo Zeppelins
Aeros Flight Buoyancy Management This is the Aeros Sky Dragon airship, which was used to test a new way to control the buoyancy of heavier-than-air ships. The company is reportedly building a...
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You Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship
Quick Jaunt The airship gets 45 minutes of flight time on a single charge of its battery. Cody Pickens View Photo GalleryThe first time retired computer engineer Jack Clemens tried to build a scale...
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Audio: Gibbons On Helium Sing Soprano
Gibbon Flickr/Thomas TolkienResearchers have just discovered that gibbons not only compete with our top ranks of singers--they have the technique down pat with almost no effort. How did we find this...
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The Roller Coaster Ups And Downs Of The World's Helium Supply [Infographic]
In a free market, supply follows demand. But in the helium market, regulations set price and production, and with good reason. Helium gas—essential for MRIs, rockets, and space telescopes—is a limited...
View ArticleGetting High on Helium
Dept.: You Built What?! Tech: Cluster ballooning Cost: $2000 per fight Time: 2 Hours of prep for a two-hour flight Practical | | | | | Popcorn…
View ArticleRe-Introducing the Airship
Most of us fly for speed, but French industrial designer Jean-Marie Massaud believes that slow cruising in an airship could be the next step in air travel. Massaud has…
View ArticleIn The Future, This Balloon Will Cost $100
The world is running short on several metals, but perhaps more disconcerting is the impending loss of the noble helium. The stuff of birthday balloons, superconducting…
View ArticleUsing Muons as a Disguise, Chemists Fool Helium Into Thinking It's Hydrogen
Chemists have messed with the constituent parts of a helium atom and fooled it into behaving like it was hydrogen. This form of alchemy allows a physical test of how atomic…
View ArticleNew Buoyant-Aircraft Design Could Lead to Fleets of Efficient Cargo Zeppelins
A California company is working on a new airship design that could solve one of the biggest problems facing buoyancy-aided aircraft — how to control floatworthiness without…
View ArticleYou Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship
The first time retired computer engineer Jack Clemens tried to build a scale model of the USS Macon, a helium-filled naval airship lost in bad weather in 1935, his cat jumped…
View ArticleAudio: Gibbons On Helium Sing Soprano
Researchers have just discovered that gibbons not only compete with our top ranks of singers--they have the technique down pat with almost no effort. How did we find this out? By gassing them with...
View ArticleThe Roller Coaster Ups And Downs Of The World's Helium Supply [Infographic]
In a free market, supply follows demand. But in the helium market, regulations set price and production, and with good reason. Helium gas—essential for MRIs, rockets, and…
View ArticleThe Weird Ways Of Superfluid Helium
With a temperature below -268 degrees Celsius, liquid helium keeps MRI machines and particle accelerators properly cooled (yay!). Take liquid helium's temperature even…
View ArticleThe Science And Engineering Of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloons
They're cute and fat and take real engineering to get up into the air. I'm talking about the iconic balloons in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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