“I see a lot of them on the water, I’ve been offshore 100 miles and seen them (balloon debris) floating out there,” Corcoran said. “They have an impact to the environment. In the Long ...

Helium is best known as the ultralight element used to lift party balloons and the Goodyear Blimp ... In their “Jetstream 1” test hole, as Pulsar dubbed it, the company hit concentrations ...

Accompanied by mimes, clowns, and the comic strip character Ziggy, roughly 1.5 million balloons, each engorged with helium, were released into the air. The multicolored blob rose higher and higher ...

"Helium tends to escape at ambient conditions very easily; everyone has seen an inflatable balloon wither and sink. So, we needed a way to avoid this when taking our measurements," he said.

A balloon filled with helium and one filled with hydrogen are ignited. Hydrogen provides a loud explosion and flame. He(g) + O 2 (g) → N.R. Light the candle on the end of the yardstick and lower the ...

La Crescenta recently celebrated its very own space launch! The playground at Mountain Avenue Elementary School was the launch site.