The massive stratospheric balloon, measuring about 9 feet in diameter and 40 feet long, was launched outside San Luis, Colo., on Jan. 14 by Urban Sky. This aerospace company operates stratospheric ...

The popular German practice known as lüften, has been making the rounds on social media lately. “Burping” your home means opening your windows for 5 to 15 minutes, letting stale, humid air to escape ...

The trend comes from the German tradition of lüften — literally “airing out" your home Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

"Here's a reminder to burp your house," one creator wrote on an Instagram video People everywhere are "burping" their houses — yes, you read that right. The trend comes from the German tradition of ...

There’s a hot new home trend that's far from getting the cold shoulder. As a deep freeze envelops a good chunk of the country, “house burping,” in which people open the windows of their homes to let ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

People who are unable to burp due to a condition known as retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD) can suffer from anxiety and depression. R-CPD causes flatulence, gurgling noises from the chest ...

Clairvoyant Baba Vanga, long believed by devotees to have foreseen events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for this year. The blind ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...