A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

Researchers have folded their way into a groundbreaking new family of origami patterns. Dubbed bloom patterns, because they resemble flowers as they unfold, the new class of origami shapes holds great ...

In the age of information overload, it can be troublesome to go through painstakingly long PDFs or when time is of the essence. With the ever-growing state of LLMs, skimming through a PDF has been ...

In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer. It was a simple device: an infinite strip of tape covered in zeros and ones, together with a machine that ...

Are you looking for a creative, fun, and educational activity to keep the kids entertained this Valentine’s Day? Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, offers a delightful way to ...

It’s an ancient form of art, but now origami is providing modern solutions in the fields of space, engineering, mathematics and medicine. For one Canadian aerospace engineer, origami and its ability ...

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

Origami is an ancient art form. In Japanese, it literally means 'folding paper,' and there are endless origami crafts. In this craft, adapted from the blog Molliepop, we'll turn a crisp dollar bill ...

A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

In 2019, hundreds of origami artists and enthusiasts visited the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Northeast Portland for the Pacific Coast Origami USA Convention. It was the first time the bi-annual ...