First, print the parachute template at the bottom of this story or draw a large square on a piece of newspaper. 1. Color your parachute. 2. Cut it out. 3. Tape a piece of string to each inside corner.

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

Gosselin explained that the parachute’s unique inverted bell shape is crucial to its performance. The kirigami cuts stretch ...

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.

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

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

Kirigami is a Japanese art of folding and cutting paper to create three-dimensional designs ... cut into a pattern that unfolds into a parachute as it drops to the ground. "We were able to make a ...