At some point, most people have sucked the helium out of a balloon to get that squeaky, high-pitched voice - including one of the classiest ladies out there, Dame Helen Mirren - but it's time to put ...

Detectives, chasing down what looked like a murder along a lonely stretch of New Mexico highway, shifted gears when evidence pointed them in an unexpected direction and revealed the death wasn't at ...

Mysore/Mysuru: In a shocking incident, one person was killed and six others, including three women and a minor girl, were ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Before Snoopy and his new friends can strut the streets of New York City and a Santa Claus actor can distribute carbon-rich coal (and, more optimistically, presents), the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Thanksgiving, enormous balloons of popular characters from cartoons, comics and animated TV ...

The things most people know about helium are that it makes balloons float up and it makes your voice squeaky if you inhale some. But helium is more than just fun and games: it is also a scarce ...

ATLANTA — Scores of new laws that were passed this year by the Georgia General Assembly take effect today, July 1. But a ban on helium balloon releases, the kind typically done at a memorial or vigil, ...

In announcing earlier this month that 45 Party City stores will close, CEO James M. Harrison also remarked on the company’s financial shortfalls in balloon sales, blaming the ongoing helium shortage.