Children's birthday parties are often decorated with bright, colorful balloons. Balloons are part of all the fun and games but the loud sound of a popping balloon may cause hearing damage to children, ...

FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 2017 -- Blowing up your kid's birthday balloons could end in a bang -- and hearing loss, new research suggests. The Canadian study found that a bursting balloon can create sound ...

University of Alberta audiologists aren't trying to ruin your parties. They are trying to make parties safer for your ears. The sound made by popping balloons, they found, can be louder than a shotgun ...

A common birthday party favor can blow up into a problem for children -- but also a bigger conversation about hearing loss, say researchers. A common birthday party favour can blow up into a problem ...

How is it possible that Phil can press some thumb tacks into a balloon and it doesn't go POP!? It's all down to the distribution of pressure. Have a look at the Hub Lab experiment above. Now, if you ...

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 ...