Watching helium gas lift balloons into the air is a lot of fun — or perhaps a tragedy if that balloon belonged to a small child who let it go. And, who hasn’t sipped the helium gas from a balloon and ...

Pretty much everyone loves balloons—especially younger children. Kids are slowly building up ideas about the way the universe works (through their observations), and they already know that when you ...

Have you ever noticed that balloons blown up by mouth don't float in the air, while balloons filled with helium gas do float? To understand this question, let's look at why things float. A person ...

Helium is getting hard to find these days, and it’s ruining parties for people of all ages. No helium, of course, means no helium balloons, and what's a celebration without balloons? Among moms who ...

Michael Corcoran, a former captain for the Clinton Police Department Marine Control and avid fisherman, said that he often comes across floating debris in his boat from helium balloons that drift far ...

Helium balloons are a quintessential party favor, a fixture of any birthday, wedding or anniversary party. But few consumers seem to know that helium is a limited resource — and one which physics ...

On Thanksgiving, enormous balloons of popular characters from cartoons, comics and animated TV shows and movies make their much-anticipated appearance in a stately procession down New York City ...

Next month, the city of Encinitas will consider a ban on helium-filled balloons, a proposal that has garnered more support letters than any topic ever heard by the environmental commission. Some ...