The folding pattern, known as the Miura-ori, is a periodic way to tile the plane using the simplest mountain-valley fold in origami. It was used as a decorative item in clothing at least as long ago ...

A versatile origami fold could be the key to creating just about any structure, from the nanoscale to full-scale buildings, according to new engineering research out this week. A team at Harvard says ...

LA CANADA >> Tony Hua tried his hand at origami in the past, but paper cranes and Hello Kitty pale in comparison to the origami-inspired endeavor he’s been a part of at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

What if you could make any object out of a flat sheet of paper? That future is on the horizon thanks to new research. A team of researchers have characterized a fundamental origami fold, or ...

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 ...

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' ...