Engineers from Polytechnique Montréal have unveiled a new parachute concept based on kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting. The design is simple, robust, and low-cost, with potential to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

Researchers Cutler Phillippe, Francesco Panerai, and Laura Villafañe Roca of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology explored the fiber-scale characteristics of parachute textiles ...

As skydivers well know, it's a good idea to look before you leap -- and to pack a trusty parachute, too. A weighty spacecraft zooming toward a planet's surface at several miles per second will, after ...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has won a $1.5 million, three-year NASA Mars Technology Development contract to develop guidance parachute technology for future Mars missions. The contract award, which will be ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

JC Berland's T-11 is the main parachute for the U.S. military. (Spc. Giovanny Lopez/Army via Canva) Anyone who has thrown themselves out of a military plane over the last two decades has likely ...