Each day since the pandemic first dawned has felt a little surreal for many people. We wander through unfamiliar facsimiles of our former lives, nearly all of our old routines disrupted. This sense of ...

Daredevil David Blaine performed his latest stunt on Wednesday, ascending nearly 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) into the Arizona ...

It’s one of the most indelible images from the entire Pixar library of films. We’re talking about the house from Up, lifted into the air by thousands of balloons, setting Carl and Russell off on their ...

May the hot air be with you... Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington ...

A week before the Tokyo Olympics commence, a giant human-faced balloon was seen floating over Tokyo’s skyline as part of the 2021 Tokyo Tokyo Festival. The cultural art festival was planned by the ...

Have you ever noticed that balloons blown up by mouth don't float in the air, while balloons filled with helium gas do float? To understand this question, let's look at why things float. A person ...

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It makes sense that a balloon filled with a lightweight gas such as helium would float when surrounded by heavier air. But why does filling a huge balloon with hot air also make it float? This ...

Hundreds of hot air balloons are the main attraction at two festivals this weekend. The Hot Air Balloon Festival NJ at the Warren County Farmers Fair runs Saturday through Aug. 4 at the fairgrounds in ...