It’s fun to find little things left behind by previous homeowners (whether by accident or on purpose) when you move into a new house. But these are definitely out of the ordinary.

Every time I hear a knock at the door, I presume it’s the fashion police coming to arrest me for my sartorial sins. For most of my life, I’ve looked as though I got dressed in a blackout. Much of what ...

This time we're going to modify our last glider to make it RC, with a micro motor so we can have a lot more fun flying for up to 7 minutes. This balsa wood airplane / glider was made in a previous ...

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 ...

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

Kirigami is a technique that modifies the mechanical properties of a sheet of material by making precise folds and cuts to it. Children use it to make snowflakes out of paper, and engineers have used ...