The Ravenna Balloon A-fair, which began in 1979, pays homage to a former large-scale toy balloon producer that was once based in the city. Ravenna’s Balloon A-Fair is back for another year. The annual ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — While restaurants and cities nix plastic straws, a Florida Atlantic University apparel store in Boca Raton is doing away with another type of plastic commonly found littered around ...

IT is well known that an oriented crystallization is produced in rubber by stretching. The rubber can be made to crystallize also by a two-dimensional homogeneous dilatation, as in the skin of an ...

Wildlife rescuers in Western Australia have saved a magpie starving to death after eating a condom, a rubber band and a bright red party balloon. The bird was handed in to Native ARC by a member of ...

Ordinary balloons that abscond from their owners' chubby little fingers can reach altitudes of up to three kilometres. Rubber balloons may remain intact for many days and can travel thousands of ...

What happens in the fraction of a second when a balloon goes POP!? It may seem like a trivial question, but the answer could provide a better understanding of how aneurysms burst and why airplanes ...

HOBART, Tasmania—Balloons are more deadly than hard plastics for seabirds, according to a new Australian study. Scientists from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, based at the University ...

WICHITA, Kansas—Pioneer Balloon Co. has partnered with Advanced Sustainable Polymers Pte Ltd. to manage its natural rubber latex supply chain. The collaboration will begin Jan. 1, according to Pioneer ...

The first time Stephanie Morace was asked to tie a balloon, she went straight to YouTube. "I was an engineer. I'd never even tied a balloon before I was 30 years old," she recently recalled, with a ...