BALLOONS are no longer just for parties — they’re for eating too. The Black Star Pastry team has created edible helium filled balloons for The Galeries annual Spring celebration. Heather McNab ...

Explain the dangers of releasing helium balloons to your children. Don't plan balloon releases at any of your celebrations and if you know of someone who is planning this, please discourage them ...

To create his work, Lithuanian artist Tadao Cern tied pairs of balloons together and filled them with gases of different densities. The ones floating at the top contain helium and the lower ones air.

Across the United States families are releasing black balloons on Thursday to honor those who died due to overdose — a tradition that was started in Massachusetts. March 6 is known as Black ...

When a car is stopped, the balloon with regular air just hangs, and the helium balloon floats, as expected. Once you start moving, though, the science shows itself in action.

Flights using helium-filled balloons began in the early 1930s. “For me this time was what I call the first space race, as it was the first time we went into the stratosphere,” explains Dr ...

Current law allows the release of up to 10 helium-filled balloons in a 24-hour period. But critics say that the law is not widely known and not enforced.

But John Lee, the association's chairman insisted that the helium its members put into balloons, was not depriving the medical profession of the gas. "The helium we use is not pure," he said.