Watch your backs, professional origamists: researchers are working on a sheet of material that can fold itself. The sheets of material, called “programmable matter” by their inventors, use electric ...

A Caltech scientist has taken the art of origami to a new level -- using DNA instead of paper. Computer scientist Paul Rothemund said Wednesday that he had woven DNA strands into two-dimensional ...

Use the ancient art of origami to create cleverly folded creatures to use as Halloween decorations. Instructions: Begin by folding an 8-by-8-inch piece of black paper into a triangle. Next, fold down ...

As a lousy folder myself, I’ve always been in awe of origami, the ancient, fiendishly complex, Japanese art form that can make a paper crane to remember, and that also, in the right hands, can be used ...

A University of Tartu student has come up with a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem using origami. While folding paper is already used — even in basic school — to demonstrate the well-known ...

A team of researchers at the Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has created battery-free folding ...