(Nanowerk Spotlight) For centuries, origami, the ancient art of paper folding, was used to create decorative figures for crafts and artwork. In recent decades however, origami principles have inspired ...

These could be the stuff of nightmares — if they weren’t so damn cute. Scientists at the University of Washington have developed adorable little electronic “microfliers,” the size of a postage stamp, ...

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 ...

Scientists have harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-fold -- freeing them from the liquids in which they usually function, so they can operate in dry environments and ...

Scientists have a discovered a way to fold origami — without physically touching it. By shining different colors of light on a sheet of Shrinky Dink plastic, researchers remotely bent it into various ...

Linda MacFarlane is a mother, musician and artist who is passionate about origami. Saturday she shared her passion with a gathering of families and craft-minded individuals in the Fox Room of the ...

The project is free, available online, and it’s open-source, so anyone can use or modify it.

We usually assume that tissue folding (the process that creates organs, embryos, and the deep ridges of the human brain) requires complex internal control. So then how does one of the world’s simplest ...