Senate Bill 1154, introduced in the Environment Committee on Jan. 24, would ban any lighter-than-air-gas or helium balloons entirely and impose fines for violators. Current law allows the release ...

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the ...

Helium is best known as the ultralight element used to lift party balloons and the Goodyear Blimp ... could prove an ideal hiding spot for the gas. In the helium industry, Abraham-James said ...

But a gas? One that’s known to most of us for lighter-than-air party balloons? In fact, helium is one of the world’s most commercially important elements. It’s used in semiconductor ...

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 ...

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 ...