Interlune provided a triple-barreled update on its progress toward mining helium-3 on the moon and returning that resource to Earth.

Unlike a kitchen refrigerator, which compresses gases called refrigerants to cool food, a dilution refrigerator uses a mixture of helium isotopes to create temperatures close to absolute zero, or ...

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Kislat is using the dilution refrigerator to test out special detectors that will help him study gamma rays. Eventually, they could go up into space.

Kislat says the dilution refrigerator uses pretty much the same process our kitchen refrigerators use. It’s based on an idea called phase transition. He says you can think of it like lemonade.

Google is unveiling a new quantum computing chip. Will it help unlock the secrets of the universe?

The helium-3 will be used in Maybell's state-of-the-art dilution refrigerators, which cool quantum devices to near-absolute zero temperatures.