The heated race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have developed an alloy that almost reaches absolute zero, the coldest possible ...

The 2026 helium shortage is structurally different: the US reserve is gone, Qatar supply disrupted, and Canada emerges as a ...

Scientists from China have developed a new cooling technology based on a rare-earth alloy that can reach temperatures close to absolute zero without relying on helium-3, reports South China Morning ...

Researchers working on advanced cooling systems have identified a class of rare-earth metallic alloys that could reduce the need for helium-3, a scarce isotope critical to both national security and ...

The war in Iran has taken almost a third of the world’s helium off the market, moving supply of the critical material from a ...

Helium is sourced as a byproduct of natural gas, which is produced naturally through the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. It is mostly found and commercially produced from gas deposits in the ...