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 ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — The Science Behind Severe Weather is here and Monday is Day One of experiments. Here is one the whole family can do at home using household objects. This experiment ...

For today’s episode of For Science! we show you an easy way to get those pesky helium balloon down from the rafters after a celebration. This experiment is very simple and straight-forward but will ...

Students from Piedmont released a weather balloon as part of a STEM project. The balloon is expected to reach an altitude of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A pair of Purdue University and McCutcheon High School students will measure cosmic rays across altitudes of up to 10,000 feet from a hot air balloon on Saturday (March 30) to ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The sounds of laughter and swooshing water balloons permeated the air of Rosa Parks Circle on Saturday afternoon. The Independence Day water balloon fight was the latest urban ...

In a few days, a balloon-borne telescope sensitive to the polarization of high-energy “hard” X-rays will ascend to the edge of the atmosphere above Fort Sumner, N.M. Once aloft, the telescope will ...

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