Today it only takes one and a half hours to make a superconducting particle accelerator at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory colder than outer space. “Now you click a ...

A half-mile-long tunnel under Menlo Park, California, just became colder than most of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Image: A 4,000-gallon helium dewar is unloaded from an LC-130 at the South Pole Station. Such shipments may soon cease as experiments move away from using liquid helium to cool telescope sensors.

An international research team including DESY scientists has observed tiny quantum vortices in cold droplets of liquid helium. The team reports in the journal Science that the exotic vortices arrange ...

One of our technicians was complaining about helium. In particular, liquid helium. It turns out that one of the instruments that needs it was low and he was having trouble getting more. My first ...