House Outlook recommends rubbing the balloon on wool, polyester, fleece, or your own hair to generate static electricity, so ...

Cannon said he's experienced the unforgiving nature of a dust devil before. "If it does form like it did for me many, many years ago, it twisted the balloon around when it was lying on the ground.

The giant balloon hoisted the Johns Hopkins telescope 16 miles high—high enough to get it up above most of the dust and water vapor in the Earth’s atmosphere, high enough for a clear look at ...

Here’s how it went when I tried it: As soon as I blew up the balloon, I could see dust clinging to it. It was a promising start! House Outlook recommends rubbing the balloon on wool, polyester, fleece ...