Kids may know that balloons are bad for wildlife. This is because, when it’s filled with helium, a balloon can travel many miles into the sky before it loses the ability to float. When it falls ...

Did Georgia ban helium balloon releases? Not quite. Here’s what the new law actually says and why social media is confused.

Not just balloons: Helium shortage may deflate MRIs, airbags and research. Edward C. Baig Charisse Jones. ... "The helium in such machines must only occasionally be topped off,” she says.

Likewise, while current MRI machines do use up to 1000 liters of helium in their cryostats, “they do not let it evaporate as they did a decade ago; they recycle it.

Liquid helium, the coldest element on Earth, is needed to keep the magnets in MRI machines running. Without it, doctors would lose a critical medical tool.

SPRINGFIELD — Deflating news: Springfield’s Parade of the Big Balloons is canceled again for 2023 as the world faces a continuing helium shortage. “We are investigating future options with a ...

Inflated with helium, the balloon is released "to the heavens," where it ascends to about 30,000 feet, at which height it freezes and cracks open, scattering the ashes.

SCRANTON, Pa. — When Newswatch 16 was hanging out with the Scranton Santa Parade committee earlier this week, organizers told us there would be no helium balloons this year because of a shortage ...

While helium balloons are not 100% of Party City’s revenue, they are the big traffic driver, said analyst Karru Martinson at Jefferies. “People come in for a balloon, and they’ll, at the ...

A giant balloon that became a popular landmark over the skies of Paris during the 2024 Olympics rose again Saturday evening, as Parisians celebrated an annual street music festival. As locals danced ...

A 5-year-old boy died after his sweet-natured game went horribly wrong as he tried to climb inside a dinosaur-shaped helium balloon. Karlton Noah Donaghey's mom found him collapsed on the floor ...

The way we get helium — which is used for everything from lifting rockets and balloons to cooling nuclear reactors and the machines used in an estimated 40 million MRI scans done each year ...