A Swiss village with about 300 residents evacuated when part of a nearby mountain began to crumble. A glacier collapsed, ...

This is their day. It’s National Paper Airplane Day! People have been making them since at least 1909. Some people think they were doing it as much as 2,000 years ago in China. The largest paper ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

According to the Paper Aircraft Association, a paper airplane thrown in space will not fly; it will float in a straight line forever.

By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Holyoke was known for its thriving paper industry – that’s ...

Explore how electronic flight bags (EFBs) empower student pilots with enhanced situational awareness, streamlined planning, ...

Airplane lavatories are marvels of engineering, combining vacuum science, pressure tricks, and strict regulations.

his memories of playing with a paper airplane came back to him. “I remember I tried over and over to make it fly farther,” he said. “That way, I learned how to release it without any strain.” ...

Open-heart surgery is a hard thing to practice in the real world, and airplane pilots cannot learn from their mistakes midair ...

Batteries are nearing their limits in terms of how much power they can store for a given weight. That's a serious obstacle ...

"The universal convention is that the egg should be in a vertical orientation when it hits the ground," Cohen told Physics ...