Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are looking to the ancient art of origami to design a folding shade that would block starlight so space telescopes can focus on distant worlds. The ...

There’s no denying its elegant beauty, but the importance of a designer’s dress pattern seems inconsequential among the examples of how the art of origami has played a role in engineering, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The afternoon sun peered through the steel monument at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Squinting into the light, I could detect hundreds of bird shapes that served ...

Long before the 3D printer, origami was the original genius at creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. Folding brings with it the ability to collapse, flex and unfurl structures at will, which ...

During the month of March, Somerset County Library System of New Jersey's Hillsborough Library branch, located at 379 S. Branch Rd. in Hillsborough, will feature artwork from "Welcome Neighbor: ...

Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are looking to the ancient art of origami to design a folding shade that would block starlight so space telescopes can focus on distant worlds. The ...