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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Polytechnique Montréal’s kirigami parachute offers low-cost, stable delivery for aid, drones, and Mars missions.

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