This is the shocking moment a balloon seller's helium canister exploded, injuring two people in India. Vendor Laxman Singh was filling a cylinder with helium gas when it suddenly blew up in Agra, ...

It’s a classic party trick- suck down a balloon and you’ll sound like Daffy Duck every time. But helium isn’t the only gas that’ll change the way you talk. So what’s going on here?

The store, which sells party balloons to both individuals and firms, is a victim of a global shortage in helium that has seen prices for the gas surge. Mr Durnford says the cost of the helium he ...

Cracker question because helium balloons are actually a pretty controversial topic. Some people argue that they are harmful to the environment because on returning to Earth, animals mistake them ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, it’s just Snoopy floating down Central Park West at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 2024, we’ll see a whopping 34 floats, 22 massive character ...

Explorer II, a helium balloon, reached 22,066 meters with two ... had a violent drop in altitude followed by a gas explosion. The crew barely managed to parachute out at 150 meters above the ...

Also in the car is a helium-filled balloon, which is resting up against the car's ceiling somewhere near its middle. The driver hits the gas and the car accelerates forward. You're thrown back ...

Hello, this week we're almost at the top of the periodic table because we're taking a look at the lighter than air gas helium. But for this chemist a helium filled bobbing balloon is actually a source ...

Because helium is in finite supply, its availability is largely contingent upon the natural gas industry ... is nearly ubiquitously associated with balloons, Kornbluth says the major players ...

Helium is notoriously hard to contain because, like hydrogen, it is a tiny little atom even by atomic standards. It also expands about 750 times when it turns into a gas, according to the post’s ...

It is mostly used in digital technology, however, notably in high-capacity hard drives in data centres (helium-filled drives boost capacity by 50% as the gas takes up less space than air ...

While there's a clear benefit to using helium instead of air in a mechanical hard drive, those benefits are largely worth the ...