It all went off at once, just minutes before the actual show was due to start. Several barges full of fireworks exploded, lighting up the sky in downtown San Diego and setting off car alarms downtown.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO, July 13 (UPI) -- A week after a Fourth of July fireworks display in San Diego was ruined when all 7,000 fireworks went off at once, organizers say they know what happened. An estimated ...

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 ...

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 ...