With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation of space vehicles, but now there's a new family of origami shapes that could make them ...

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 ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

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 ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Now that we’re all spending a lot more time at home, it’s a good time to pick up a new craft, whether ...

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 ...

“Wings” is depicting how Vietnamese artists have awaken their creativity to origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, which was introduced into Vietnam in the mid 1960s. “Wings” is depicting how ...

Mention origami and images of cute paper cranes spring to mind. But scientists are using the ancient Japanese papercraft to revolutionise structural engineering. Researchers have developed a new ...