When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another planet – they generally have the highest number of needs and the lowest ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those of ...

Abstract: Origami has been proved as a valuable tool to develop deployable, multifunctional, and tunable devices for diverse engineering applications. Inspired by the Kresling origami, this article ...

Miles Wu, 14, from New York City, won the USD 25,000 Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND.Miles Wu / Society for Science A 14-year-old student from New York City has cashed in a USD 25,000 prize after ...

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...

Every year on November 11, people around the world celebrate World Origami Day. This day serves as a tribute to the centuries-old Japanese art of paper folding that transforms a simple sheet into a ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

It's been just about a year since Origami Angel hit us with the phenomenal Feeling Not Found. Today the hard-rocking yet maniacally catchy emo duo is back with their contribution to Cosmic Debris Vol.

Stretchable electronics are used in smartphones, smartwatches, curved displays, and wearable sensors. However, stretchable materials like elastomers have lower electrical performance than rigid ...

BYU student discovers previously unknown "blooming flower" origami folding pattern. The new technique has an infinite number of variations that can expand into 3-D forms. The designs have potential ...

These structures could help improve how scientists design and deploy antennas, optical devices for satellites. (Representational image)Victor /Royal Society Scientists are exploring a new class of ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...