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Here Come the Macy’s Balloons, There Goes Our Helium?
By Mindy Weisberger November 22, 2017 A helium-filled “Elf on a Shelf” balloon hovers above the crowds in New York City, during the 2016 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Image: © Macy’s, Inc.) On Thanksgiving, enormous balloons of popular characters from cartoons, comics and animated TV shows and movies make their much-anticipated appearance in a stately […]
Scientists Devise New Way to Find an Elusive Element: Helium
By Henry Fountain June 28, 2016 You may not know much about helium, except that it fills birthday balloons and blimps and can make even the most stentorian voice sound a bit like Donald Duck. But helium is an important gas for science and medicine. Among other things, in liquid form (a few degrees above […]
The Global Helium Shortage Is Real, but Don’t Blame Party Balloons
By Heather Murphy May 16, 2019 Party City, one of the country’s leading suppliers of colorful balloons, disposable tablecloths and small signs declaring “Oh, Kale Yeah!,” announced recently that it would shutter 45 of its 870 stores in 2019. Across the internet, many said it was because of a shortage of helium. A spokeswoman for […]
