#Helium

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has designated helium a critical material, one that is vital to the manufacture of semiconductors and other advanced tech.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. designated helium as a critical material on Friday because it's indispensable for making semiconductors that are essential to energy generation, and the global supply is at risk of…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. designated helium as a critical material on Friday because it's indispensable for making semiconductors that are essential to energy generation, and the global supply is at risk of…

Cosmologists have another powerful simulation to work with. Lumina is the one of the largest and most detailed cosmological simulations yet and runs on the Frontier supercomputer. It's larger and more detailed than Illustris TNG.

The Lumina Project spans 2 billion years and will allow scientists to test theories and predictions about the origins of the cosmos.

The US has declared helium a critical material as war in the Middle East and export curbs by Russia and China squeeze global supplies of a gas vital to chipmaking, leaving Europe scrambling to secure its share.

The U.S. government has designated helium as a critical material because it’s indispensable for making semiconductors that are essential to energy generation, and the global supply is at risk of disruption.

If the rift keeps growing larger, the African continent could end up splitting in half, researchers say.

The chip industry looks resilient at the surface. Helium shows how much of it still depends on thin, hidden industrial passages

The Iran war threatens to squeeze the industrial inputs that chip manufacturers depend on.

My morning train WFH reads: • Women get worse investment advice: There are plenty of differences between men and women; how they invest their money, how they deal with risk, etc.…

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might have caught the signature of the universe's first stars.

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang appears to contain extremely pure and young stars

After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with this giant of quantum physics, and explores the legacy of his enduring recipe for testing the edges of the quantum world

If you were asked to think about a physical phenomenon that’s responsible for any sort of force in the Universe, what answer would you give? Most people, when asked, respond with one of two answers.…

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Rising tension in the Middle East is rattling high-end chipmakers. Among the latest geopolitical uncertainties for the industry is a shortage of helium that could slow global production.