Learn to Make a Semi-Automatic Paper Plane Launcher at Home Discover how to craft a semi-automatic paper plane launcher with a 30-plane capacity using simple materials like cardboard, batteries, ...

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The voters of New England face a by-election following the High Court's ruling that MP and Deputy Prime Minister Baranaby Joyce was not qualified to be a candidate at last year's Federal election.

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

If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, if the designer took inspiration from ...

Civitas Resources considers a $14B merger with SM Energy in the Permian Basin. Get the latest on this potential deal and ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth explains how scientists found inspiration in kirigami, the Japanese art of cutting paper to create complex forms, to be used in parachutes.

This paper evaluates claims about large macroeconomic implications of new advances in AI. It starts from a task-based model of AI’s effects, working through automation and task complementarities. So ...

A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...

A team of researchers in France and Canada might have just improved upon humble parachutes by making lots of holes in them.

Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: ...