Origami isn’t just child’s play. The math and science behind paper folding can revolutionize how we make all kinds of technologies. Roboticist Shuguang Li used origami to develop soft, strong, and ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

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 ...

“The first thing you think of when you see your home engulfed in flames is, My world and future have changed,” Robert J. Lang, one of the world’s foremost origami artists and theorists, said recently.

She then folded, twisted and pulled those sheets into three-dimensional shapes such as a crane, lacy vase, feather, and a sphere made of interlaced ribbons. While the sheets did generally hold those ...