While watching and lighting fireworks may be exciting for some, others may find the noise triggering. Igniting fireworks and watching them light up the sky may be fascinating to some people, but the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Fourth of July holiday is this week and that means bright colors and big booms are coming to the night sky. Fireworks are a staple of the Independence Day celebration in the ...

For many people around the world, the very first moments of the new year will be filled with the sounds and colorful light shows of fireworks. From loud bangs to long whistles, bright reds to pale ...

SAGINAW, MI — Hours after the barrels cooled from launching the annual Saginaw fireworks show from Ojibway Island in 2021, Derron Suchodolski listened as the city sky continued to buckle and thunder ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John Conkling, pyrotechnics specialist and professor emeritus of chemistry from Washington College, about how firework sounds are designed. The Fourth of July is of ...

Fireworks may be a traditional part of Independence Day celebrations across the country, but in the community surrounding Stoneman Douglas High School, there’s a newfound anxiety over the sound of ...