Helium One, a company that holds a prospecting license for recently discovered helium deposits in Tanzania, intends to use Lockheed Martin's LMH-1 hybrid airships to transport the gas out of the country. The company's license includes three project areas in Tanzania, encompassing more than 4,500 km² of land with helium...

Air Products has opened a cryogenic air separation plant in the Guangdong Province of South China. The facility will produce both gaseous oxygen and nitrogen in a modular space that allows for easier field installation and requires less land, according to the company.

Scientists from the LArIAT experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have begun a proof-of-concept test for the planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The researchers studying what will happen if the space between detection wires inside the future DUNE detectors is increased from three millimeters to five, a design that...

GE Healthcare has acquired Asymptote Limited, a company specializing in cryochain technology for sensitive cellular therapies. The acquisition fills a critical gap in GE Healthcare’s end-to-end ecosystem of products and services for cell therapy production, according to GE, and will be an important piece of a portfolio enabling the industrialization...

In a March ceremony, NASA presented Valcor's Yuri Gerasimov with its Silver Snoopy, an award given to candidates who have significantly contributed to the human space flight program. Less than one percent of the aerospace program workforce receives the Silver Snoopy annually, making the award a special honor. Gerasimov played...

The US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has successfully created the first pure, single-crystal sample of a new iron arsenide superconductor, CaKFe4As4, and studies of this material have called into question some long-standing theoretical models of superconductivity.