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 metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight. Metamaterials have structures not found in nature, which can give them unusual ...