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

Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more predictably than standard parachutes.

Parachutes rarely get the credit they deserve. They transform deadly freefall into a gentle descent, saving lives in war ...

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

Engineers in Montréal design a kirigami-cut parachute that stabilizes instantly, promising low-cost aid drops and future Mars ...

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

When a conventional parachute is deployed, it cannot simply fall vertically towards its target. To protect itself from ...

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

Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have created a concept for a parachute inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, one ...

Recent research has shown that most scientific papers on coral biodiversity are led by people in high-income countries with few coral reefs. Reinhard Dirscherl / ullstein bild via Getty Images This ...