The history of the first paper airplane is largely debated. According to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., some believe the earliest paper airplanes came from China with the use ...

A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved on its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. How you fold a paper airplane can determine how fast or how far it ...

How does an airplane lift off the ground? Learn how planes use lift and thrust to fly, then make your own paper airplane catapult. Design Squad is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

“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 ...

With the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo and paper airplane master and former world record holder John Collins have collaborated to bring the magic, ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...