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Human genome goes global

Science In Action

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The Mystery of Sound

Danny Bowman started ballooning as a hobby putting cameras on weather balloons and then in grad school he just said well what would happen if we put percent up there that's when my advisor and I realized that no one had done it in 50 years. You can take these solar powered hot air balloons which cost about 50 US dollars in materials to build and 50 50 50 you go to the hardware storeYou buy the painters plastic you cut it in a pattern that we have in one of our papers and you tape it together with shipping tape  to make them. It will take two kilograms to you know 19 or 20 kilometers in the sky a bunch of smart teenagers could do it really if they wanted

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