KASHIWA, Japan – Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind ...

Meenakshi Mukerji takes the ancient Japanese art form of origami – or paper folding – far beyond the making of simple paper cranes. Mukerji, a resident of Cupertino, is famous in the origami world for ...

Michael G. LaFosse has been an origami artist for over four decades and co-founded Origamido Studio, a unique destination for a variety of paper art and origami resources that serves as a hybrid ...

Don’t say Lillian Yajima is “98” years old. She proudly claims the “half”…98 and a half years old….and the retired teacher is still teaching. Kupuna at care homes and children here at the Japanese ...

Long known for being a way to create interesting figures of birds, animals and other things, origami -- the Japanese art of paper folding -- could soon be the inspiration for sophisticated devices ...

At an Olympics where journalists are largely sealed off from the host country due to strict COVID-19 protocols, a group of young Japanese volunteers is offering tiny presents that showcase an art form ...

It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel this month, Japan's space agency adopted it yesterday for feasibility studies, and a well-known astronaut is interested in ...

Most people can fold a piece of paper by the time they're in kindergarten, but it's not child's play for a robot, which must use complex mathematical formulas to accomplish the task. That's why ...