This experiment explores how the natural oils from an orange peel interact with the rubber in balloons — revealing a surprising bit of chemistry hiding in plain sight.

Laurie Jaegar, the daughter of local balloonist Mark Semich, holds up his plaque celebrating his entrance into the National ...

When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi on Oct. 8, 2025, for the ...

Voyager 1 has been exploring the cosmos for decades, but when it reached the edge of the solar system, it found something ...

If Broadcom says that co-packaged optics is ready for prime time and can compete with other ways of linking switch ASICs to ...

The state of emergency—and a no-strings-attached disaster fund that the Legislature created for the governor's office—gave ...

The data gathered from the chips, combined with previous studies, are anticipated to give NASA more insight into what microgravity does to the human body and how the agency can work to protect its ...

Martin Pitt continues his series on the history of coal, looking at coal gas, balloons and the fuels that lit the world ...

Wildfire smoke and wood-burning stoves have become familiar features of contemporary life. When we talk about emissions, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With the tropics heating up in the Atlantic and multiple storms off shore, the National Weather Service is boosting the number of weather balloon launches to improve the accuracy ...

NEW DELHI – In an effort to combat rising temperatures in Gujarat, hundreds of homes in Ahmedabad have received a new “cool roof” treatment, where their rooftops are painted with a white reflective ...