It's time to learn how to make a proper parachute, it's one of the easiest projects of all times, cheap as well. So we will drop it from a drone because it's big, normally I will throw it myself, but ...

On the range, we demonstrate the Parachute Drill for adding distance - a simple resistance exercise that encourages proper ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting ...