“Sometimes you learn from the smallest things. Sometimes you realize that the mere change of the angle of the neck changes the meaning of the entire scene. And sometimes you learn that things like ...

The action that's been reserved for thin, flexible materials is about to get a boost. Researchers studying the ancient art of origami have figured out some new ways to make rigid, thick structures ...

Long before screens and styluses, entertainment came in the form of folded paper. One square. No cuts. No glue. Just folds. That’s all it took to create animals, flowers, boats, and birds that felt ...

It’s all about the basics, he says. Each of Duy Nguyen’s 18 books begins with diagrams of traditional origami folds — carrying descriptive names such as “kite fold,” “pleat fold” and “squash fold” — ...

They share a love for paper and an even greater love for what their dexterous fingers can make that paper become: an elegant pink rhododendron, a sleek golden dragon, a wide gray elephant's butt. They ...

Programmable stiff sheets with a single low-energy folding motion have been sought in fields ranging from the ancient art of origami to modern meta-materials research. Despite such attention, only two ...

The way that an earwig insect folds its wings could be applied to how engineers preprogram technology to perform certain tasks, according to research published on March 23 in the journal Science. The ...