Researchers have used origami techniques to design stents, which must be small enough for doctors to thread through a blood vessel and then pop open. Origami by ...

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Robert Lang had a good career as a laser physicist. He worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, researching semiconductor lasers used in fiber-optic communications, before switching to a private ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Origami may sound more like art than science, but a complex folding pathway that proteins use to determine their shape has been harnessed by molecular biologists, enabling them to ...

No one wants their parents on their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media site they might be busy embarrassing themselves on. They surely don’t want to see pictures of you on the ...

The art of origami usually requires dextrous fingers to turn a flat sheet into an intricate 3D shape. Now it’s got considerably easier, thanks to a material that can fold up on its own. Each foil was ...