Few of the 4 billion spectators dazzled by last Friday's opening ceremony would have been aware that the spectacular 'giant footprint' fireworks seen in the live broadcast were composed with computer ...

The Fourth of July is synonymous with fireworks displays, but before all the bright colors and thunderous booms, scientists are hard at work behind the scenes making each firework display its best.

NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies for this summer's Beijing Olympics drew record ratings for any games held outside the U.S., as an estimated 69.9 million American viewers tuned in. But during ...

Zap a mass of supercooled atoms with a magnetic field and you'll see "quantum fireworks" — jets of atoms firing off in apparently random directions. Researchers discovered this back in 2017, and they ...

It appears a computer glitch caused the fireworks mishap that disappointed thousands of people camped out to watch the Big Bay Boom in San Diego Bay Wednesday night. The New Jersey-based company ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Independence Day revelers in Hilo had to wait more than 40 minutes for their Fourth of July fireworks show and then never got to see the promised grand finale. A pyrotechnician is ...

Officials in Coralville are blaming a computer glitch for premature explosions that cut short the city's annual Fourth of July show.The Iowa City Press-Citizen ...

A corrupted computer file is to blame for the three-minute delay to Monday night’s start of the fireworks show at the Space Needle. Two technicians had to press buttons to manually set off about 5,000 ...

A computer glitch apparently caused the fireworks mishap that disappointed thousands of people who camped out to watch the Big Bay Boom in San Diego's Glorietta Bay Wednesday night, when they got more ...