The unknown crackling could be the sound of distant thunderstorms, falling meteors, or turbulence. Listen to the sounds a balloon hears 12 miles above Earth: from ocean waves to volcanic eruptions.

Up, up in the air ... scientific solar-powered balloons have recorded some strange sounds in the stratosphere researchers cannot identify. Daniel Bowman and other researchers at Sandia National ...

WEBVTT ON EARTH ALMOST 20 MILES HIGH.>> IT IS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTSWHEN YOU SAY, I CANNOT BELIEVETHIS IS MY JOB.JUSTIN: DANNY BOWMAN IS AGEOPHYSICIST AT SANDIA NATIONALLABORATORIES AND HAS ...

Intrepid explorers braved the unknown to find that the world is round. Now, a detector suspended from a balloon circling the frigid Antarctic has measured the curvature of the universe and revealed ...

Addi’s Inflatable Minute brings us a wild musical instrument that’s powered by a balloon and a foot pump and made out of PVC pipe and clothespins. Invented by Aaron Wendell, a student at the School of ...

The ultimate goal to making virtual reality feel more like reality is letting users physically touch non-existent objects in a VR world. Until we figure out the technology behind Star Trek’s Holodecks ...

On paper, the plight of a pair of families fleeing 1979’s East Germany in a hot air balloon sounds like fabricated fodder for a spy novel. But as implausible as it sounds, this “The Mysterious Island” ...

Daniel Bowman sends cell phones into the stratosphere aboard solar-powered hot-air balloons. You might be surprised what sounds they record up there. These balloons listen to the Earth from a dozen ...