A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...

Researchers at the École Polytechnique de Montréal have developed a new type of parachute based on the Japanese art of cutting and paper folding kirigami – a variation of origami. The parachute is ...

A team of researchers in France and Canada might have just improved upon humble parachutes by making lots of holes in them. Inspired by Kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting paper into ...

2:23 Montreal engineering students show off their innovations at science camp The innovative project, which earned the researchers an article in the science journal “Nature,” published this week, ...

A new type of parachute made from a plastic sheet cut in a ‘closed-loop’ kirigami pattern has been developed by a team at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Laser cutting of a closed-loop kirigami ...

Kirigami is a technique that modifies the mechanical properties of a sheet of material by making precise folds and cuts to it. Children use it to make snowflakes out of paper, and engineers have used ...

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Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of kirigami, this MXene material antenna array was created by researchers at Drexel University and the University of British Columbia. The future of wireless ...

The future of wireless technology — from charging devices to boosting communication signals — relies on the antennas that transmit electromagnetic waves becoming increasingly versatile, durable and ...

Renri has been playing the Pokemon series as far back as Ruby/Sapphire and as such, her primary topics for strategy guides and lists usually involve Pokemon. She's also an avid Legend of Zelda fan, ...

In a nutshell: In a world where computers keep getting smaller and more compact, researchers at North Carolina State University have gone in the opposite direction. They've created a mechanical ...