Kids and balloons are a classic. Saturday morning, the pairing reached new heights with a heavy dose of science in tow that nobody minded as area 4-Hers partnered with the geography, meteorology and ...

With six teams assigned to specific aspects of the project, the Northeast Middle School Electronics Club recently coordinated a successful 70-mile flight of a weather balloon across mid-Michigan, then ...

National Weather Service branches around the US launch two weather balloons every day, sometimes three. This adds up to more than 80,000 balloons each year. It stands to reason, then, that these ...