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CYBER: The Great Balloon Panic Has Been Weird But Good for Balloon Hobbyists
The amateur ballooning community has experienced a wave of interest after the U.S. went on a balloon killing spree.
US Military Swears It's Not Spying on China With Balloons It Spent Millions Developing
The U.S. said it has no high altitude balloons above China, but that doesn't mean the technology doesn't exist.
‘Hysteria’: Is the Panic Over Balloons Getting Out of Hand?
Amateur balloonists are advised to label their payload lest they get mistaken as spying devices.
Weather Balloon Gone Rogue or Spy Vessel at Work? We Ask the Experts.
A suspected spy balloon—or stray weather device—risks blowing U.S.-China relations off course.
This Viral TikTok Balloon Game Just Got a Full-on Championship
A simple childhood game played around the world has gone pro.
Earth Microbes Can Survive on the Surface of Mars, Study Suggests
Microbes took a balloon to the stratosphere, where some of them proved resilient to Mars-like conditions.
A Balloon Above Antarctica Found Signals That May Lead to New Physics
A new study deepens the mystery behind two possible detections of rare cosmic particles.
Artist Jan Hakon Erichsen Explains His Balloon Popping/Pasta Breaking Instagram Videos
“You should really, really, not try this at home.”
These Electric Blue Clouds Are Made from Ice Crystals and Meteor Debris
NASA’s PMC Turbo mission captured new views of polar mesospheric clouds from a five-day balloon flight over the Arctic.
A Bomb Squad Blew Up a University Student Science Project
Encased in Styrofoam, the ozone-measuring instrument landed on Redwood Road in Castro Valley.
Spiders Can Fly Thousands of Miles With Electric Power
For the first time, scientists have empirically verified electricity’s role in the ballooning abilities of spiders.
Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists
Scientists are about to test technology that could reduce global warming. But conspiracy theorists are sending them death threats.