Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to ...

The skydiver cut themselves free before descending into freefall and managing to release their main parachute Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to ...

A parachutist in Queensland, Australia, survived by cutting the chute free at 15,000 feet when a reserve parachute accidentally deployed, according to a government report. By Amanda Holpuch A skydiver ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Although humans inhabit a 3D world, much of our design practice is rooted in two dimensions. Paper, textiles, sheet metals, wood planks and plastic panels are all manufactured in two dimensions, and ...

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 ...

A skydiving instructor and student went into an uncontrollable spin when their parachute malfunctioned and they plummeted into the desert near Jean at upwards of 45 mph, according to a police report ...