It’s easy to craft a paper airplane capable of soaring across a classroom, but one that can travel 200 feet is a bit harder.

Almost everyone has folded a sheet of paper into an airplane, thrown it across a classroom or playground, and watched it ...

What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s just the sort of idea that might emerge from a curious child — or, as it turns out, a physicist with a flair ...

A team of Italian engineering students built the world’s largest paper airplane, earning a Guinness World Record with a 65.75 ...

In what must be the greatest scientific paper of all time, Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki attacked the problem with the ...

Check out a new book of paper airplanes inspired by the Smithsonian’s collections Michael D. Hulslander A paper airplane and its inspiration, the Mitchell U-2 Superwing. Plane image - Gift of Frank X.

They said they were students who believed that, with the right approach, even a piece of paper could become real engineering.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point in everyone's life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a ...

To get started, all you need is a standard A4 sheet of paper and the folding skills of a 4-year-old. Reading time 3 minutes Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper ...