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. A group of students from Italy’s University of Pisa not only managed to ...

“If you take a regular piece of paper and try to make it fly, it will flutter, tumble, flip around in the air and do all sorts of crazy motions,” says Leif Ristroph, an associate professor of ...

John Collins, also known as 'The Paper Airplane Guy,' teaches us how to fold and fly our very own version of his "world record" paper airplane. John attempts to make the greatest paper airplane on the ...

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 ...

John Collins, also known as 'The Paper Airplane Guy,' teaches us how to fold and fly our very own "Phoenix" paper airplane. The Phoenix is a broader wing glider than the classic 'dart' and not too ...

Harry Everett Smith was a painter, filmmaker, and collector, but he considered himself primarily an anthropologist. Aside from a short stint at Berkeley with a researcher who studied Native American ...

In 2012, designer John Collins constructed a paper airplane that flew an astonishing 226 feet, establishing a distance record that still stands. A new video ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The students broke a previous record held for 13 years by Germany's Braunschweig Institute of Technology. Built using only paper ...