History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting to make an ...

Engineers with Penn State have introduced a new potential way for researchers to explore the atmosphere on other planets: nanocardboard. Specifically, the engineers envision something like ...

Japan has begun deploying expendable cardboard drones developed by a domestic manufacturer, AirKamuy, marking a major shift toward low-cost autonomous warfare. The drone, known as the AirKamuy 150, is ...

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The unmanned Mars Helicopter drone may be scheduled to launch soon, but it's still just a single aircraft that will be useless if it conks out. With that in mind, scientists are now looking into an ...

Human-scale cardboard aircraft came surprisingly close to real flight Could cardboard really lift a person into the air? YouTuber Peter Sripol put this idea to the test by building a sit-in cardboard ...