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Three Smart Things You Should Know About Helium Some unknown facts about this second periodic element.  |
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Helium reserves under pressure Helium is an essential element in modern chemistry. Now the fate of one of the world's main sources of the gas hangs in the balance and the global helium market faces a period of turbulence that could send prices soaring.  |
Geotimes August 2004 Sara Pratt |
Pressure Shifts in Yellowstone The 2002 rupture of Alaska's Denali fault triggered more than 250 smaller-magnitude quakes, altering the eruption behavior of many of the park's famed geysers.  |
Geotimes June 2005 Jake Lowenstern |
Truth, Fiction and Everything in Between at Yellowstone The Yellowstone caldera is a volcano, and it almost certainly will erupt again someday. It's possible, though unlikely, that future eruptions could reach the magnitude of Yellowstone's three largest explosive eruptions, 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago.  |
Geotimes November 2007 Kathryn Watts |
Yellowstone and Heise: Supervolcanoes That Lighten Up Beneath Yellowstone, and driving many of its beloved features such as the geyser Old Faithful, lies a churning chamber of magma that has erupted before and may erupt again.  |
Chemistry World May 11, 2006 Jon Evans |
Sea Water Assumes the Xenon Mantle Geochemists have uncovered evidence that sea water incorporates noble gases into the Earth's mantle, overturning current theories of how noble gases are transported beneath the crust.  |
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever |
Yellowstone's Moving Magma New research is suggesting that magma located below the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park periodically rises close to the surface, heating the geothermal field, before diving back down.  |
Chemistry World January 28, 2010 Rebecca Renner |
US helium strategy threatens supply The US should change the way it sells helium from its huge federal stockpile to remove its influence over the world market and avert national shortages of the material.  |
Chemistry World November 1, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Air Products looks for alternative helium sources Worries over global helium supplies have led US specialist gas supplier Air Products to search out new sources of the gas.  |
Geotimes February 2004 Sara Pratt |
Fire cooks rock clocks A new field study has confirmed what models had previously predicted: The intense heat of wildfires can reset the helium "clock" in rocks, making them appear younger than they are.  |
Geotimes July 2004 Megan Sever |
Yellowstone Mudslides Close Entrance Following severe thunderstorms and heavy rains on Sunday night, mudslides cascaded off a Yellowstone National Park mountainside onto a road on Sunday, blocking off the eastern entrance to the park.  |
Chemistry World May 11, 2012 Simon Perks |
Gas separation with graphene nanopores Scientists in New Zealand, the US and Germany have developed a way of using tiny pores in a graphene sheet to separate different isotopes of helium.  |
Chemistry World May 28, 2014 Ian Randall |
Earth's earliest continent formed like Iceland The Earth's first continents may have formed in a geological setting similar to modern-day Iceland, according to the geochemical analysis of a newly discovered rock unit from Canada.  |
Chemistry World September 23, 2013 Laura Howes |
Senate bill aims to soothe helium market The US Senate has passed a bill that will let the government continue selling off its stockpiled helium, in an attempt to prevent a disruption of supply that could adversely affect researchers around the world.  |
Chemistry World October 1, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Just add helium for metallic nanotubes Adding helium gas when making carbon nanotubes encourages many more of them to grow in the useful metallic form, US researchers have found.  |
Geotimes October 2003 |
Geophenomena New addition to the Aleutian family... Yellowstone geysers heat up... First dead zone forecast... etc.  |
Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever |
Odd Microbes at Yellowstone Researchers recently found in Yellowstone National Park what could provide clues to finding life on other planets: a thin layer of living and fossilized microbes just beneath a rock's surface.  |
Geotimes September 2007 Elizabeth Quill |
Earth's Heat Buoys up Its Crust New research suggests that without the heat in Earth's crust and upper mantle creating elevation, much of North America would be underwater.  |