There’s no denying its elegant beauty, but the importance of a designer’s dress pattern seems inconsequential among the examples of how the art of origami has played a role in engineering, ...

In an inspiring story of young innovation, 14-year-old Miles Wu turns his love for origami into award winning research, ...

A 14-year-old innovator designed a Miura-ori origami structure strong enough to support 10,000× its weight, earning him the ...

If you saw the Winter 2015 advert for local clothing brand Old Khaki, you’d have watched a piece of paper dance around, before undergoing a series of folds that turns it into a cheeky little goat.

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 ...

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

Say goodbye to those clunky, nuts-and-bolts robots. The robots of tomorrow will be as flexible as paper. That's what researchers from MIT, Harvard University and Cornell University hope. A team of ...

Plastic with a thousand faces: A single piece of Nafion foil makes it possible to produce a broad palette of complex 3-D structures. Researchers now describe how they use simple chemical 'programming' ...