A challenge increasingly important to physicists and materials scientists in recent years has been how to design controllable new materials that exhibit desired physical properties rather than relying ...

Shuki Kato, a master origami artist who has written several books on the art form, is pictured Nov. 3. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake) A photo of a bison created by origami artist Shuki Kato. Kato ...

The hell of constructing flat-packed furniture by hand could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new self-locking design technique that can hold thousands of times its own weight. The design is a ...

The CanDo (computer-aided engineering for DNA origami) program can convert a 2-D DNA origami blueprint into a complex 3-D shape, seen here. Image: Do-Nyun Kim A major hurdle to these increasingly ...

From new ways of to to the , we've been covering a number of research and design breakthroughs that were inspired by origami here at SmartPlanet. Yes, the traditional Japanese art of folding paper ...

Chuck Hoberman's eponymous sphere is one of the best-loved toys of the last quarter century. But it's only one example of his incredible work in transformable design. From adaptive nanotech to ...

A young student has crafted a groundbreaking origami dress, transforming fabric and paper into a striking artistic representation of a quantum memory drive. Audrey Zhang, an art and archaeology major ...

Some 20 years or so, various individuals recognised that the problem of folding a square sheet of paper into an arbitrary 3D shape had many similarities to problems in computational geometry. These ...