The V-tail empennage, patented in 1930, gained interest for its perceived advantages in reducing drag and manufacturing costs, though early analyses found no decisive aerodynamic superiority over ...

The wings on modern commercial aircraft are attached to the plane at a slight angle known as a dihedral. This angle allows the plane to achieve the lift it needs to fly, and at the proper angles, ...

Lunar laser ranging (LLR) to the Apollo retro-reflectors, which features the most long-lasting experiment in testing General Relativity theories, has remained operational over the past four decades.

On February 26, 2012 at California's McClellan Air Force Base, TV producer John Collins smashed the record for the longest paper-plane flight with Suzanne. Here's how to build a rival to his ...

Every disease has a protein basis. For some diseases, like HIV, changes in protein structure are critical for how the virus infects a person’s cells. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago ...

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW7 2AY, UK Summary: The AM1 and ab initio calculated geometries of Möbius strips formed by imparting one, two or ...