Photo: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Macy's, Inc. Why don’t the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons fly away? With so much helium inside them, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ...

It will come from some of the numerous helium weather balloons set to be ... using the latest Raspberry Pi cameras. The balloons will fly at an altitude of 80,000 feet in the stratosphere, where ...

It was the third unidentified flying object blown out of the sky in three days, and a week after a balloon equipped with antennae traversed the US before it too was blasted to bits. The huge ...

Indian police have arrested a YouTuber for tying helium balloons to his pet dog "in an attempt to make it fly". Gaurav Sharma, 32, shot a video showing his dog attached to balloons, which he then ...

This double balloon helium/hot air system ... Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries become the first to fly across the English Channel. 1793—The First Balloon Flight in North America ...

German engineering firm Festo has created this flying manta ray. Dubbed the Air_ray, it’s a balloon made of an aluminum-vaporised “PET foil”. Inflated with helium, the Air_ray’s propulsion ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can ...

But you can still fly your own with a helium balloon and some electronics. One notable project — the Blimpduino — has evolved into the Blimpduino 2. The open-source software is on GitHub.