In experiments with a gelatin replica of human tissue, researchers found that a thin sheet of paper tended to buckle before it could cut. Thick paper typically indented the material but didn’t ...

An experiment with a robot and gelatine determined that 65-micrometre-thick paper is the most prone to slicing our skin – but it can also make for a handy recyclable knife Close Advertisement ...

But a new study from researchers in Denmark may help you avoid the dreaded paper cut – a painful experience for office workers and book readers alike. Thanks to their lab experiments, ...

Through these experiments and modelling, they discovered that paper cuts are a competition between slicing and “buckling”. Thin paper with a thickness of about 30 microns, or 0.03 mm, doesn’t cut so ...

Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

The annexed engraving is a perspective view of a machine for cutting paper, pasteboard, c, for which a patent was granted on I the 19th of last July (1853) to H. J. Oerter, ...

Experiments with paper airplanes revealed new aerodynamic effects that enhance our current understanding of flight stability. ... The plates were laser-cut from an acrylic plastic sheet, ...