Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

A painter and sculptor since she was a child, Florida International University student Briana Gonzalez brings an artistic sensibility to her work at a new FIU center to design “origami” antennas. The ...

The findings also offer clues about early animal evolution. Placozoa resemble some of the earliest animals on Earth, which ...

The art of origami, or paper folding, has been around for more than 2,000 years. These days, origami papers are available in a multitude of vibrant colors and patterns. Most packs come with the ...

Start with a square piece of paper. Now, fold it into the shape of a tarantula. Seem like a daunting task? It’s not, if you borrow Robert J. Lang’s software. The California-based origami designer -- ...

Origami, the art of paper-folding, is known more for its elementary school applications than its street cred. But that could be changing as the traditional art finds its way to the world of science ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...

DNA origami is a technique used for the nanoscale folding of DNA to develop two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) shapes at a nanoscale range. No bigger than a virus, each of these ...