About 30 percent of the world's helium supply depends on the Strait of Hormuz. Its closure means higher prices for tech manufacturing and advanced medical care.

A gas you rarely think about is disrupting MRI supply chains in India. West Asia-linked helium shortages have tightened ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible ...

Disruptions to Qatar's natural gas processing from the Iran war have driven helium prices sharply higher, exposing the ...

Global turbulence in the helium market may soon affect the cost of medical diagnostics in Russia, with experts warning that MRI scans could become ...

The ‘largest supply disruption in history’ due to the US-Israeli war on Iran is affecting prices from plastic to jet fuel to fertiliser ...

Roughly one-third of the world’s traded urea, the dominant form of nitrogen fertilizer, normally passes through the Strait of ...

UW graduate student Lauren Kim operates the ultra-high vacuum system housing a Scanning Tunneling Microscope for her research in condensed matter physics. The instrument operates at ultra-low ...

Helium prices have surged to record highs in 2026, with spot prices jumping over 30% in the past month, as a production halt at Qatar’s LNG facilities disrupts a critical node in the global supply ...