Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

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 ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- A new display at the State Capitol is drawing attention to the Line 5 lawsuit. The line runs through a large portion of northern Wisconsin, including the Bad River Reservation.

Researchers used their new technique to fold a glass bar (a), create an optical resonator (b) to achieve helical bending (c) and to create a table with a parabolic reflector (middle, lower row).

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, ...

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure -- without breaking. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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