LES SABLES D’OLONNE, France (AP) — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about ...

LES SABLES D’OLONNE, France — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about ...

It’s all go for the Balloons over Waikato festival next month, with the organisers making changes to the Zuru Nightglow. Lightning Events said the festival’s grand finale will still be a ...

Balloon angioplasty, also known as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), is a minimally invasive procedure done to widen narrowed or obstructed blood vessels. The procedure accesses a blood ...

Some 30 years ago left-handed Auguste Piccard, gangling, mischievous Munich student, had a barber-shop shave, bet the barber that “his whiskers grew faster than any others in the world.” ...

Professor Auguste Piccard, ecstatic Swiss voyageur of the stratosphere (TIME, Aug. 29), kidnapped his neighbor’s dog fortnight ago, had all the dog’s teeth pulled. To the astonished neighbor ...

If the word “festive” had a physical form, it would be balloons. There’s no denying that they bring extra cheer to any celebration, whether it’s over-the-top arches, metallic helium balloons and ...

The divers descended to 10,916 metres in nine hours. Auguste Piccard was known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Bertrand Piccard, a medical doctor specialised in psychiatry, an explorer and aeronaut, who made the first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight, is the initiator and chairman of the Solar ...

Waiting for Jacques' return were his father, Auguste Piccard, who had helped design the craft and had himself been the first man to fly a manned balloon kilometres up into the stratosphere ...