The diamond anvil crushed iron and helium together under conditions mimicking those inside the Earth, to create a new compound. These compounds remained stable when pressures were reduced.

Under pressure Illustration of how helium atoms (pink spheres) are incorporated within a face-centred cubic iron lattice (blue spheres). (Courtesy: University of Tokyo) Helium deep with the Earth ...

Cracker question because helium balloons are actually a pretty controversial topic. Some people argue that they are harmful to the environment because on returning to Earth, animals mistake them ...

Massive helium reservoir in Minnesota is even more 'mind-boggling' than we thought, new data suggest The Hamersley Province holds more than 55 billion tons (50 metric gigatons) of iron ore ...

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. Primordial helium from the ...

A Pulsar Helium drill site as seen Jan. 13 near Babbitt, Minn. Canada-based Pulsar Helium has discovered extremely high concentrations of helium in tests of underground deposits. Helium is best ...

"In this case, we crushed iron and helium together under about 5–55 gigapascals of pressure and at temperatures of 1,000 Kelvin to nearly 3,000 Kelvin. Those pressures correspond to roughly ...

The two Nasa astronauts have been marooned at the International Space Station since June last year after multiple helium leaks incapacitated the thruster systems of their spacecraft – Boeing’s ...

Oil and gas have never been produced in Minnesota. With the discovery near Babbitt of what is believed to be the richest helium deposit in the world and rising interest in the state’s potential ...