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 ...

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.

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 ...

A computer glitch led to a delayed fireworks show at the Seattle Center on Monday night as partiers waited to ring in the new year. The show started on time at 11:59, said Mary Bacarella, spokeswoman ...

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 ...

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 ...