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South Korean Artist Prepares to Launch His Homemade Satellite Into Orbit
South Korean artist Song Ho-jun has spent years working on his very own DIY sputnik, a homemade satellite cobbled together...
FYI: Did Prehistoric Birds Evolve Flight By Falling Out of Trees?
Possibly. The trees-down (or “arboreal”) hypothesis has been around for many years, says evolutionary biologist Richard O. Prum of Yale...
Researchers Trying to Give First Supersonic Biplane Some Lift
In the 1930s engineer Adolf Busemann conceived of a supersonic biplane that produced no sonic boom—the shock waves would bounce...
Video: How to Fold the Longest-Flying Paper Airplanes
Two paper-folding masters demonstrate the principles of flight with custom PopSci airplanes
Space Shuttle Enterprise Makes Its Final Flight
The Space Shuttle Enterprise flew over New York today, piggyback-style, on its way to its retirement at the USS Intrepid...
Video: Flying Thing Propels Itself By Flipping Inside Out
Flying objects can achieve forward thrust in a few ways, but here’s a unique new one: Flipping inside out to...
“Jarno Smeets” and the Physics of True Human Flight
Resident physics dude Adam Weiner shows us what it would really take to lift a human body off the ground, bird-style
Self-Powered Flying Dutchman Is Fake, Right Down to His Name
On a Dutch TV show named, with utter Dutchness, De Wereld Draait Door, the man previously known as Jarno Smeets–of...
Video: Dutchman Flaps His Arms And Flies
Jarno Smeets has been working for several months on his Human Bird Wings project — assembling long nylon wings powered...
FAA Finally Reconsidering Its Stance on Gadgets Aboard Airplanes
Amid all the discussion about iPads in the cockpits of commercial and military airplanes, one question has remained unclear —...
