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, ...

A common birthday party favour can blow up into a problem for children--but also a bigger conversation about hearing loss, say University of Alberta researchers. U of A hearing experts Bill Hodgetts ...

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 ...