Everyone remembers origami. It’s that thing you did in grade school where you folded a piece of paper into the shape of a bird or a fish. Increasingly, however, it’s also the stuff of serious science.

Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...

Professor Uehara from JAIST works at the intersection of theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and the art of solving puzzles. His research strives to understand the computational ...

Visit Explorit Science Center Sunday, April 26, for a special workshop on “The Science of Origami” from 2 to 4 p.m. Members of the Davis Origami Club will be on hand to introduce the basics of the ...

Robert Lang, a pioneer of the marriage of origami with mathematics that revolutionized the art in the late 20th century, will deliver a free public lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. in ...

Researchers have developed multifunctional origami structures, which they then fabricated into 4-D printed objects. The design principle mimics the structure of an earwig's wing. Every child knows ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

Explore the ingenuity behind an emergency shelter designed with an origami skin that thrives in extreme Arctic conditions.

"What we have here is the proof of concept of an integrated system for manufacturing complex origami. It has tremendous potential applications," said Glaucio H. Paulino, a professor at the School of ...

To quickly unfurl and refold their wings, earwigs stretch the rules of origami. Yes, those garden pests that scurry out from under overturned flowerpots can also fly. Because earwigs spend most of ...

A new robotic gripper is a strong “hand” with a soft touch. The bell-shaped gripper has a silicone rubber skeleton with an intricate origami design, wrapped in an airtight, latex rubber skin. When a ...

Kids, computational origami is something you can do on your own. That’s what James Colovos and John Reid, two juniors at the Albuquerque Public Schools Career Enrichment Center, discovered over the ...