We modeled the capacity of water to hold heat more easily than air. With the first balloon, the flame was applied to the rubber skin separating air outside the balloon from air inside the balloon. The ...

Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...

High above the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, a NASA balloon has picked up signals that challenge our understanding of the cosmos. These radio waves, buried deep in the continent’s ice, appear to ...

Watching a playing card burn to ash, but a piece of flash paper leave no ash after burning was among the experiments in a “Mad Science: Fire and Ice” program recently at the Indian Prairie Library in ...

AMES, Iowa – Early spring snow clung to the tree branches surrounding the Howe Hall parking lot as a dozen Iowa State University students began filling a high-altitude balloon with hydrogen just after ...

From live leeches to building model rockets, a lot happens in Joe Graber’s Michigan high school science class. The most recent project is a weather balloon experiment that could lead to a scavenger ...

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December. Four balloons were launched from a site near McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice ...