If you’ve ever stared at a freshly poured pint and watched the bubbles race to the top, you’ve witnessed some surprisingly complex physics in action. A 2021 study published in ACS Omega by researchers at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne set out to answer a deceptively simple question: how many CO₂ bubbles actually form in …

Roughly one-third of global helium supply is offline after March 2026 missile and drone strikes destroyed key production trains at Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility.1 Even when the situation in the Strait of Hormuz fully resolves, the supply damage will take years to repair. U.S. distributors are rationing supply and spot prices have skyrocketed. What’s Happening …

When a biotech facility runs out of liquid nitrogen, the loss is not the gas. It is the samples, the stem cells, the embryos, the bioreactors, and the months of research work that depend on continuous cryogenic storage. A single supply interruption can erase laboratory inventory worth millions of dollars and reset research timelines by …

Helium has viable substitutes for some applications (welding blends, gas chromatography) with manageable trade-offs, but no real alternative exists for MRI cooling, leak detection, semiconductor production, and a handful of specialty welding and purging jobs. The helium market is one of the most volatile in industrial gas, with prices and availability swinging hard on supply …