The helium shortage is potentially deflating for a range of purposes: airbags, rocket fuel, MRIs, fiber optics, semiconductors, and, yes, balloons.

Did Georgia ban helium balloon releases? Not quite. Here’s what the new law actually says and why social media is confused.

Helium expands wireless internet coverage through the use of blockchain technology. Helium is now expanding to 5G to support cell phones. Despite a questionable past, the new 5G model could grow ...

Helium hasn’t vanished into thin air in Hampton Roads. But a dense air of uncertainty surrounds availability not only here but also around the rest of the planet, casting a shadow over a ...

A helium shortage might mean you can’t get the medical scans you need. Here’s why MRI machines need liquid helium to super-cool their magnets. But is the gas really irreplaceable?

Fewer than 10 countries in the world produce helium. South Africa will be the latest, when Renergen starts commercial production of the critical gas.

Helium is also used in the manufacturing of the semiconductors (computer chips), which are at the heart of electronic devices.

For more than a year, the fate of the Federal Helium Reserve, one of the world’s largest and most dependable suppliers of helium, has been uncertain. The mammoth underground structure is ...

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium ...

Helium is crucial to all kinds of technologies, including MRI scanners and semiconductors. But it’s produced in only a few places.

An inquest into the 20-year-old’s death has now found Ms. Batistich was “unaware of the inherent dangers of inhaling helium,” and called for warning labels on canisters to be made clearer.

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.