California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Orange County on Saturday. Emergency personnel continue their efforts to cool down the overheated chemical storage tank and prevent it ...

From monochrome potato chip bags to 'Diet Coke parties,' conflict in the Middle East is wreaking havoc on global supply ...

The 2026 AI compute crisis and the Iran war energy shock are the same supply chain disruption, observed at opposite ends.

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) was able to detect chemical signatures. A visualization (not an actual image) of the NIRSpec velocity and distribution data is shown in the inset for oxygen ...

Unusual helium signatures detected in Zambian hot springs may signal that a hidden tectonic rift is actively developing ...

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

The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

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 ...

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...