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

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

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 ...

Discover the art of crafting the perfect flying paper airplane with our step-by-step guide! In this video, learn techniques ...

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: ...

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 ...

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

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At the core of contemporary China is a contradiction: it’s the world’s most prominent Communist-ruled country, yet it’s found steadily increasing affluence in recent decades by embracing a degree of ...