CAMBRIDGE: "Some people don't even think this exists," says Dr Erik Demaine, turning in his hands an elaborately folded paper structure. CAMBRIDGE: "Some people don't even think this exists," says Dr ...

The art of origami usually requires dextrous fingers to turn a flat sheet into an intricate 3D shape. Now it’s got considerably easier, thanks to a material that can fold up on its own. Each foil was ...

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Start with a square piece of paper. Now, fold it into the shape of a tarantula. Seem like a daunting task? It’s not, if you borrow Robert J. Lang’s software. The California-based origami designer -- ...

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 ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...