Science news articles about 'blimp'

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 21 (UPI) -- A blimp-shaped balloon is ferrying equipment Canadian researchers need to get a picture of the health of the Canadian seashore's ecosystem.

Dalhousie PhD student Jeff Barrell and Professor Jon Grant outfitted a blimp-shaped helium balloon with expensive photography equipment and sent it soaring a few hundred metres in the air to acquire ...

... have argued, can be reversed with a large-scale "geoengineering" fix, such as having a giant blimp spray liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere or building tens of millions of chemical filter ...

Global warming can be reversed, some are arguing, with a "geoengineering" fix, such as flying a giant blimp and spraying liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere. But a professor in the UCLA ...

... ), with a prototype one-third of that length due to be ready by 2014. The US military hopes the blimp, floating 12 miles above a surveillance area in near space, will give it a better understanding of ...

... and effective immune responses." The finding is outlined in a paper entitled, "Bcl6 and Blimp-1 are reciprocal and antagonistic regulators of T follicular helper (TFH) cell differentiation." Yale ...

... -fighting form. "We are very excited by the identification of Blimp-1 as a key transcriptional regulator of T ... author Wherry. "Transcription factors like Blimp-1 are key molecules involved in global ...

... aircraft are not a new idea. Hot air balloons have been around for more than two centuries and blimps are a common sight over many sports stadiums. But it's hard to imagine an inflatable spacecraft.