Governments want to regulate nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, a party drug used by young adults in the United States and ...

An Arizona lawmaker introduced legislation for the upcoming session intended to regulate the release of balloons. State Sen.

How do these giant balloons work? What makes them both easier and more complicated than a normal-size balloon?

Revellers inhale the gas from balloons - it can distort sound, create feelings of euphoria or trigger a headache Wholesalers in the Netherlands say that in the past two years there has been a 400% ...

But when it comes to controlled long-distance flight, gas-filled balloons are also limited. As the sun heats the gas in the envelope, the balloon rises uncontrollably and so gas has to be vented ...

Lifting the contraption required 3 million cubic feet of hydrogen, an extremely flammable gas. The flight ended in disaster when the balloon ripped, plummeted towards earth, and burst into flames ...

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 ...

The villagers alleged that civic volunteer Durgaprasad Bhattacharya recently began an illegal gas balloon business. Bagdi, who was Bhattacharya's neighbour, helped him fill the balloons.

It took French scientist Jacques Charles less than 100 days to go from launching the first hydrogen-filled balloon to lifting ...

In case you thought, what's the big deal, the gas is only used for things like inflating balloons at places like Tokyo Disneyland, think again. There is a worldwide shortage of helium gas ...

They spread out the enormous balloons on the grass and check all the lines. The talk is all about today's temperature, wind speed, and direction. Some of the balloonists have turned on their gas ...

But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air balloons as well as gas-filled ones. While the Montgolfier brothers get most of the credit for hot air ballooning in 1783, there are some ...