Engineers created a laser-cut Mylar disc that drops with surprising precision, promising safer, cheaper parachute system for ...

A water bottle, dropped by a drone from an altitude of 60 meters, slowly descends using a parachute made from cut paper. Courtesy of Frederick Gosselin Scientists have successfully created a parachute ...

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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that Boeing has done more testing on its Starliner parachutes than the two “development tests” originally cited. Next year when SpaceX’s ...