Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into intricate patterns—that can automatically adapt in mid-air. The design has the potential to make air ...
Parachutes safely deliver people, cargo, and humanitarian aid. Yet conventional parachutes are expensive to make and fragile. They are also complex to assemble and require skilled labour, limiting ...
A research team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Montreal Polytechnique University has presented a new parachute concept inspired by the traditional Japanese art of paper cutting.
Unlike origami, which is only about folding, kirigami involves cutting the paper, too. This ancient craft has been practiced ...
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 ...
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...
The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...
UPPSC Exam Pattern 2025: The UPPSC is all set to conduct the UPPSC Prelims exam on October 12 2025. The candidates before starting the preparation must be aware of the UPPSC Exam Pattern. To start ...
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...