On a clear day in early fall, around sunrise, you might notice hot air balloons flying across the sky, but why do they navigate the skies so early in the day and how does weather play a role in their ...

SAN ANTONIO – Hello parents, teachers and students! Are you looking for something fun to do at home that has a little bit of science behind it? Well, check out this awesome at-home experiment from ...

The Science Siblings popped by with an experiment fit for Liftiversary week involving balloons, candles, and oranges. Paige and Adam Jacobson suggest safety glasses too. “We will be working with ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Rising air is all around us— outside and inside. It's what meteorologists call "convection." Warm air is lighter and less dense than cold air, so it has buoyancy and wants to ...

THE military balloon experiments at Woolwich have been so far successful, that last week an aëronaut was lifted some 700 feet, to a height, therefore, sufficient for reconnoitring purposes. There is ...

Everybody knows what happens when you add a flame to a balloon: BANG! But, what happens when you add a little water to your balloon and then the flame? Here's an experiment that might get you and your ...

Last week NEWS 9's Doug Warner braved the windy skies and let a handful of balloons loose with messages attached. He found out he wasn't alone. A couple months back the Tuttle Middle School students ...

THE most difficult part of the planning of a large stratospheric balloon is how to control the rate of descent in the upper atmosphere. If a balloon is large enough to reach about 19 miles (1/100 ...

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 dawn on ...