While working on his doctoral thesis at Harvard University over the last few years, Omer Gottesman spent a lot of time at his desk crumpling sheets of paper, especially when he was stuck. He would ...

EUREKA — Eureka Studio Arts will exhibit drawings from Brent Eviston’s “Ghost Opera” series, an ongoing project that explores crumpled paper as a subject. Eviston will also give a drawing ...

While working on his doctoral thesis at Harvard University over the last few years, Omer Gottesman spent a lot of time at his desk crumpling sheets of paper, especially when he was stuck. He would ...

University physicists Thomas Witten and Sidney Nagel have been investigating where energy is stored in thin sheets of Mylar when work is performed on them by crumpling. They find the ability of a ...

It’s mind-bending but true: the average ball of crumpled paper is one of the most mysterious puzzles in physics. (Adobe Stock) Researchers from Harvard University’s department of applied physics have ...

Thin elastic sheets are important materials across length scales ranging from mesoscopic (polymerized membranes, clay platelets, virus capsids) to macroscopic (paper, metal foils). The crumpling of ...