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Why the world is quietly running out of the gas that cools MRI machines.
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00:00Hospitals are hoarding invisible gas because Earth is officially running out of helium.
00:05This ultralight element escapes our atmosphere completely since gravity cannot hold its tiny atoms.
00:12Every single atom trapped underground took millions of years of radioactive rock decay to form.
00:18ASML lithography cleanrooms and quantum labs desperately need this exact element to reach absolute zero.
00:24Liquid cryogens boil away instantly, forcing facilities to capture and recycle every escaping molecule.
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