Last week in Atlantic City, amid discussions of business, enterprise, and strategy, nearly half of the Defector staff ...

@juan_jo1963 shared a video of a large air balloon ascending with a banner showcasing an owl, an eagle, and other animals. The display captured the attention of onlookers as it rose high into the sky.

On October 20, 2024, in La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia, @juan_jo1963 shared a video of a large air balloon ascending with a banner showcasing an owl, an eagle, and other animals. The display ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar ... What do you call a porcupine interviewing for a job at a balloon factory? Unemployed.

It was awful,” Goldberg recalls. Goldberg is the coauthor of a recent study about the impact weather-balloon debris is having on seabirds and marine animals. Globally, hundreds of thousands of ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Branson has also invested in the stratospheric ballooning company. Richard Branson is going back to his balloon roots. The Virgin Galactic founder made record-breaking hot-air balloon flights ...

Researchers now describe a species of bioluminescent phytoplankton, called Pyrocystis noctiluca, that balloons to six times their original size of a few hundred microns. This massive inflation ...

AUSA 2024 — The US Army is about to approve a new requirement for small high-altitude balloons for sensing deep inside enemy territory, according to a senior official. “You’ll see it as ...

A hot air balloon in Albuquereque, New Mexico, plummeted to the ground after it struck a radio tower during a popular festival, briefly catching fire. Kevin Carhart, a spokesperson for the ...

It was rough sailing this year at New Mexico’s world-renowned annual hot-air balloon festival. A series of accidents plagued the 52nd Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, including the collapse ...