Franz Reichelt climbed 347 steps up the Eiffel Tower wearing a homemade silk parachute suit that had already failed most of its previous tests. Although officials had authorized only a mannequin ...

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 ...

As skydivers well know, it's a good idea to look before you leap -- and to pack a trusty parachute, too. A weighty spacecraft zooming toward a planet's surface at several miles per second will, after ...