Third-grade students at Velma Linford Elementary joined forces with the University of Wyoming’s NASA Space Grant Consortium on Tuesday morning to launch a high-altitude weather balloon, combining hand ...

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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.

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

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

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

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

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