Screams filled the laboratory – screams, thankfully, of joy. Akib Zaman, a PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had just made a mini chair appear, seemingly out of nowhere. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the microscopic, tear-shaped Lacrymaria olor swims around hunting for food, it does something remarkable: In a blink, the tiny ...

Designers across disciplines are increasingly drawing on origami’s principles to transform flat concepts into immersive, functional 3D experiences. From interior spaces shaped by graphic design’s ...

Someone has created a game that takes advantage of your folding phone’s hinge. The game is an origami simulator called “Kami.” The project is free, available online, and it’s open-source, so anyone ...

Scientists have a discovered a way to fold origami — without physically touching it. By shining different colors of light on a sheet of Shrinky Dink plastic, researchers remotely bent it into various ...

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...

Researchers developed and tested a deployable antenna for the 3U CubeSat OrigamiSat-2. Weighing only 64 grams and achieving a ...

An origami-inspired reflectarray antenna developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo enables CubeSats to achieve ...