A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful, 19th-century textile designer William Morris once said. Now, a team of engineers at ...

A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal report a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of ...

If you have a fear of heights and find yourself falling out of an airplane, you probably don’t want to look up to find your parachute full of holes. However, if the designer took inspiration from ...

Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: ...

MONTREAL - Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have created a concept for a parachute inspired by the Japanese art of ...

Researchers are using Kirigami technology to give a parachute different properties. The initial approaches are very promising ...

Hundreds of British Army recruits have been placed on the wrong training course after a military blunder. Junior soldiers who ...

A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal reported today in Nature a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the ...

Polytechnique Montréal’s kirigami parachute offers low-cost, stable delivery for aid, drones, and Mars missions.

The divers, an instructor, 54, and a 24-year-old student on an 11,000-ft tandem jump, went into a spiral on September 17 as a ...

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