Leader Mike Cassidy talks about the project's first step: providing balloon Internet to New Zealand and the 40th parallel south. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, I'm Ira Flatow. If you have a smartphone ...

The charter for the colony of Maryland gives the Calvert family the entire Delmarva Peninsula between the 40th parallel to the north and Watkin’s Point to the south. Basically, everything ...

The testers are from Christchurch and parts of Canterbury, New Zealand, and the test balloons will fly around the 40th parallel south, Google says. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was in ...

For the past 14 years, Bruce Myren has been photographing an imaginary line. That line, the 40th parallel north, runs across the United States, from the New Jersey shoreline to Northern California.

Since 1998, he has been making journeys across the east-west 40th parallel and taking photographs at every place where the latitudinal line intersects and north-south longitudinal line.

They call it Project Loon. They've already launched a pilot system in New Zealand and plan to expand that to the entire 40th parallel south, a ring around the globe. Can it work? How loony is this ...