A worldwide shortage of helium has caused a spike in prices, rationing, and a lot of calls to the Bureau of Land Management, which runs the Federal Helium Reserve in Amarillo, Texas. The government ...

When it comes to the global helium supply this year, "everything that could go wrong has gone wrong," says one analyst. That affects everything... Helium prices are blowing up. Here's what is causing ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gas ballooning, as an adventure sport, is likely to fade away in the United States, as a sharp spike in helium prices and supply constraints threaten the survival of the sport.

A growing helium shortage, coupled to distribution delays worldwide, is having a growing impact on industrial users of the lighter-than-air gas, but the hardest hit are party suppliers. Local helium ...

On Thursday, the U.S. government sold the Federal Helium Reserve, a massive underground stockpile based in Amarillo, Texas, that supplies up to 30% of the country’s helium. Once the deal is finalized, ...

UW graduate student Lauren Kim operates the ultra-high vacuum system housing a Scanning Tunneling Microscope for her research in condensed matter physics. The instrument operates at ultra-low ...