Do you know just 25 tonnes of helium-3 (a rare isotope of helium) would be enough to power the US for an entire year? However, Earth’s atmosphere receives only a small quantity of helium from ...

Helium on Earth comes in two stable isotopes. By far the most common is helium-4, whose nucleus contains two protons and two neutrons. Helium-4 accounts for about 99.99986% of all helium on our ...

Dr Anran Cheng (lead author) preparing equipment in the Ballentine Laboratory for the measurement of helium isotopes in geological samples. Credit: John Cairns. Dr Anran Cheng (lead author ...

Groundwater is water stored beneath the Earth's surface in the spaces between rocks and sediments, collectively known as aquifers.

Primordial nucleosynthesis is believed by most cosmologists to have taken place in the interval from roughly 10 seconds to 20 minutes after the Big Bang, and is calculated to be responsible for the ...

Credit: Interlune GOLDEN, Colorado — Interlune, a Seattle-based company of former Blue Origin technologists, has set its sights on the moon’s supply of Helium-3 — a rare heavy isotope ...

helium-4 and krypton-81) to help Member States better assess and manage their river and groundwater resources. The Section also aims to strengthen the self-reliance of Member States in using isotope ...

In an experiment performed at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) in Osaka in Japan, the existence of preformed helium nuclei at the surface of several tin isotopes could be identified in a ...

The isotope helium-3 is to be used in nuclear fusion and in quantum computers. The US company Interlune wants to mine it on the moon. Helium-3, which consists of two protons and one neutron ...