Testing a small-scale prototype of the space paper airplane in the University of Tokyo's hypersonic wind tunnel. Shinji Suzuki Earlier this year, when astronauts attached the first section of Japan’s ...

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The technology behind ink-jet printers has developed so fast that they can now be snapped up for bargain prices on the high street. But manufacturers are keen to take ink-jet technology to other ...

Paper planes aren't just for passing secret notes across the classroom anymore. Now, they can even save lives. Otherlab, an engineering research and development lab based in San Francisco, has created ...

Building a paper airplane can be as demanding as building the airframe of a real aircraft. And once a group of students in Pisa set out to make the world’s largest one, the classroom craft turned into ...

John Collins, the Paper Airplane Guy, shows how to fold five amazing paper planes: the Boomerang, the Boomerang 2, the Bat Plane, the Tumbling Wing, and the World Record Plane (a.k.a. "Suzanne"). Read ...

That is quite a paper airplane. It spins as it flies. It gets its directional stability from how quickly that it's spinning. But more importantly, that's how it derives its lift, from how fast it's ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...