New to origami? Start here! Learn 8 essential folds that form the foundation of countless beautiful designs. Perfect for beginners – get step-by-step instructions and tips to master these basic ...

If you want to print something a few inches tall, extruded plastic is a good medium. But when you need something at the nanometer scale, DNA is a better bet — but who has the time to design and ...

This novel fabrication process makes lightweight, expandable, 3D structures. Engineers at The Georgia Institute of Technology have merged the ancient art of folding paper, origami, with 3D printing to ...

In the acclaimed TV series, Sherlock, detective Sherlock Holmes helps lock up a Chinese smuggling racket by discovering a common thread between all the dead victims: a black Origami lotus at every ...

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure -- without breaking. In a ...

Origami has inspired the design of structures with unique properties, finding a huge range of potential uses, including soft robots and stretchable electronics. Now researchers from Georgia Institute ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them ...