Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ivan Semeniuk
Publication Date: October 1, 2025 - 11:00
How Japanese paper cutting inspired Montreal researchers to engineer a new type of parachute
October 1, 2025
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful, 19th-century textile designer William Morris once said.
Now a team of engineers at Polytechnique Montréal have demonstrated the inverse of Morris’s famous quote: They started with something truly beautiful and discovered it has an unexpected use – as a new type of parachute.
Unpublished Newswire
The seizure occurred in May at the Tsawwassen Container Examination Facility in B.C., but was reported by CBSA on Thursday — one day before Carney and Xi are set to meet.
October 30, 2025 - 15:49 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada
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As of Thursday afternoon,...
October 30, 2025 - 15:38 | Chris Lambie | National Post
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