The manner in which the parachute acts doesn’t alter even with the escalation of the device’s size,” Gosselin explained. “This indicates that it is feasible to scale up to larger applications.” ...

A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal report a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami today in Nature. This simple, robust and low-cost approach has a wide ...

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