Aerospace and defense company Inversion is showing off its solution to getting emergency supplies anywhere on Earth in under ...

A team of engineers from Polytechnique Montréal report a new and unique parachute concept inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami today in Nature. This simple, robust and low-cost approach has a wide ...

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

The DropShip has two small electric-driven propellers extended upfront on booms and a diesel engine-powered pusher propeller ...

Inversion Space reveals Arc, a spacecraft designed to drop 500-pound payloads anywhere on Earth in under an hour using rapid ...

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 ...

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

Inversion, a California-based company, has unveiled Arc, a reusable spacecraft designed to deliver orbital cargo anywhere on Earth in under an hour.

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth explains how scientists found inspiration in kirigami, the Japanese art of cutting paper to create complex forms, to be used in parachutes.

Turkey has confirmed the purchase of 12 military transport aircraft C-130J Hercules, previously in service with the Royal Air ...