When you accelerate in a car, the seat you are sat in pushes you forwards, with the result that you feel like you are being ...

Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

Weather balloons are used frequently to gather key data on weather conditions. University of Missouri meteorology students ...

With a small fleet of instruments that require ... as well as the superconducting magnets in medical MRI scanners. Helium is often used to fill party balloons, weather balloons and airships ...

It takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill a weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it fitted with a sensor ... We hope you appreciated this story. A small team of local journalists runs ...

National Weather Service offices across the country are suspending or reducing weather balloon flights due to low staffing.

Over a hundred blue, white, and silver helium balloons were released into the ... No age group went unrepresented in the crowd — small children rode around on tricycles while their parents ...

The helium or hydrogen-filled balloon is attached to an electronic ... “It’s a big impact … for what’s probably a relatively small cost compared to the whole federal budget,” Bathke ...