A brilliant new design for a disaster relief shelter uses a giant, load-bearing helium balloon to expand and collapse a foldable, portable skyscraper.
Can Google’s helium wi-fi balloons restore Internet in Puerto Rico?
Devastated and disconnected by Hurricane Maria, there’s a chance Puerto Rico might get some help from Google’s helium wi-fi balloons.
Supercooled helium helps make world’s tiniest hard drive—one atom
You read that right. IBM scientists have managed to store one bit of data on a single atom. And they needed supercooled helium to do it.
Helium bike helmet: Invisible protection in a crash
Like an airbag in your car, this helium bike helmet is a hidden device that cyclists wear around their neck, which inflates just before a crash.
Sensor-laden helium balloons designed to travel in hurricanes
Engineers at UC San Diego are working to try to better forecast hurricanes by releasing swarms of sensor-laden helium balloons right into the storms.
Helium balloon robot arm is straight out of the movies
We came across a video of a 60-foot-long helium balloon robot arm that you just have to see to believe. It is the real-life version of War of the Worlds.
Walking helium balloon robot could water your plants
One of the biggest challenges in making a robot walk seems to be keeping it from falling down all the time. But, a walking helium balloon robot?
Project Loon: Internet balloons closer to going global
Google has gone to the UN for help in bringing its Internet balloons effort, dubbed Project Loon, to more remote areas of the world.
Inventor of world’s first gas laser dies at 89
The world has silently lost a technological pioneer, one whose gas laser discoveries led to advances in telecom, Internet, medicine, retail and more.
A star is (re)born – the amazing properties of helium
For the first time ever, astronomers have just witnessed an old, dying star rebirth itself; and it has much to do with the incredible properties of helium.