https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09515-9
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-kirigami-parachute-suitable-humanitarian-missions.html

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 variety of potential applications ranging from humanitarian aid to space exploration.