The second element on the Periodic Table of Elements is inert, colorless and odorless — but far from boring. Helium shows up in semiconductors, birthday balloons and the Large Hadron Collider.

But this week the 150-year-old Periodic Table made headlines around the world ... site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Helium is the second most common element in the universe ...

Helium is the second-most common element in the universe, but it's comparatively rare on Earth. It also fulfills a surprising role in everything from space exploration to quantum computing.

When Dmitrii Mendeleev proposed his periodic table 150 years ago ... be formed into a spoon that melts in the hand or in hot tea. Helium was discovered as a bright yellow line in a spectrum ...

Helium, a noble gas, was long believed to be 'too aloof' to react with the other elements on the periodic table. Now, however, scientists have provided a theoretical explanation of how helium may ...

Qatar is the world’s second-biggest producer of helium, the gaseous element that sits at the top-right of the periodic table. You may be wondering, what’s the big deal? Is it so bad if ...

Ramsay had previously discovered argon in 1894 and was the first to isolate helium in 1895. From those elements' places on the Periodic Table, he deduced that there was a yet unknown element ...

5. Did Mendeleev’s periodic table miss anything? When argon was discovered in 1894, it didn’t fit into any of Mendeleev’s columns, so he denied its existence — as he did for helium, neon, krypton, ...

Partisans are clashing over which elements belong in group 3, where helium should go, and how many columns the periodic table should have. They follow a long line of chemists and physicists who ...