This article originally appeared in Philadelphia City Paper‘s annual Science Issue, published today. Read the special section, available on newsstands this week or online here. Inside the sun-filled atrium of Drexel’s Bassone Research building, a blue, star-shaped balloon floats in the architectural web of gray steel that criss-crosses geometrically before six stories of glass paneling. It’s just one of those metallic-looking, helium-filled tchotchkes you buy in a gift shop. But its mid-air rest speaks to Earth’s gravitational pull doing battle with the lightness of the gas inside, and its deflating mylar material brings to mind Kennedy-era NASA research.
This article originally appeared in Philadelphia City Paper‘s annual Science Issue, published today. Read the special section, available on newsstands this week or online here.
Inside the sun-filled atrium of Drexel’s Bassone Research building, a blue, star-shaped balloon floats in the architectural web of gray steel that criss-crosses geometrically before six stories of glass paneling.
It’s just one of those metallic-looking, helium-filled tchotchkes you buy in a gift shop. But its mid-air rest speaks to Earth’s gravitational pull doing battle with the lightness of the gas inside, and its deflating mylar material brings to mind Kennedy-era NASA research.
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