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

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 ...

This green mesh parachute is unlike any that Westerners are used to: It is thin, flexible and can be folded back into a disk for reuse. Montreal researchers are testing its uses with small objects.

Montreal researchers design a low-cost kirigami parachute that is cheap, stable, and scalable, for use in drones, airdrops, ...

Researchers are using Kirigami technology to give a parachute different properties. The initial approaches are very promising ...

Parachutes inspired by Japanese paper cutting unfurl automatically and fall more predictably than standard parachutes.

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The voters of New England face a by-election following the High Court's ruling that MP and Deputy Prime Minister Baranaby Joyce was not qualified to be a candidate at last year's Federal election.

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