A West Texas woman saw something unusual on a recent morning, a massive parachute drifting slowly across the sky. It turns ...

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 ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth explains how scientists found inspiration in kirigami, the Japanese art of cutting paper to create complex forms, to be used in parachutes.

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

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

A team of researchers in France and Canada might have just improved upon humble parachutes by making lots of holes in them.

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

Montreal researchers design a low-cost kirigami parachute that is cheap, stable, and scalable, for use in drones, airdrops, ...

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 report a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of ...

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