Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

Origami artists can turn a sheet of paper into the most intricate creations. But materials scientists are starting back at the very basics - just not using paper. They’re studying concepts from ...

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

A centuries-old Japanese art is set to revolutionize the manufacturing industry with origami printing. Origami is more than a hobby in the engineering world. Illustration by dzianis, Shutterstock ...

This origami structure, called “Green Cycles,” by Erik Demaine and his father Martin required a week of improvisation to assemble. Credit: Renwick Gallery The shape of a Pringle, mathematically ...