This water balloon parachute is one of the best outdoor science experiments for kids on a sunny day. Materials needed: Small water balloons and thin plastic supermarket bags with handles.

Scientists have released a series of photos of Curiosity’s parachute over the course of five months.-- blowing in the cool Martian breezes on Gale Crater. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

Paleontology has a ‘parachute science’ problem. Here’s how it plays out in 3 nations. Legacies of colonialism can stifle science. But there are ways to rein it in ...

Instead, it crashed when the parachute collapsed on the balloon. Undeterred, the 12-year-old gathered the parachute and balloon and placed her experiment on a table. Clark pulled at the plastic.

A study found parachutes were no more effective than backpacks in preventing harm to people jumping from aircraft. The researchers' tongue-in-cheek experiment makes a deeper point about science.

But while critics have long pointed out that parachute science is unethical, the global pandemic has revealed that it is impractical, too. For centuries, Western scientists have traveled overseas ...

The Pandemic Showed What Can Be Done Without Parachute Science With international scientists barred from traveling, local scientists in the Pacific islands are taking the chance to lead.

It should go without saying, but sending a rover to Mars is a challenging endeavor. Lots of things have to go perfectly right in order … ...

Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines are home to the lion’s share of coral reefs, but most studies on these ecosystems are done by researchers based in the US, Australia, and the UK. This ...