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

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

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

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

A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved on its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...