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.

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Researchers have used origami techniques to design stents, which must be small enough for doctors to thread through a blood vessel and then pop open. Origami by ...

What do cutting-edge developments in heart stents, air bag logistics and space telescope lenses have in common with a folded paper frog? These advances in technological design all are based on the ...

Robots are taking “dress for success” to a whole other level. A new type of shape-shifting robot can undergo complete metamorphosis in a matter of minutes. The bot is composed of a simple metal cube ...

A dissertation study at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) developed two-dimensional fishnet-like structures from DNA origami for silicon surfaces and investigated how different conditions affect ...

Dr. Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for more than 40 years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with more than 600 designs cataloged and ...

What do flapping birds and space telescopes have in common? To find out, plan to attend the 55th Kieval Lecture, a free event this Tuesday at Humboldt State University. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m.

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 ...

A pioneering origami artist is in Blacksburg to teach and discuss how art and science fold together. Dr. Robert Lang was invited to be the featured banquet speaker for the 2012 International Union of ...

There's now a way to make "protein origami" — self-assembling shapes made of twisted molecular strands— a new study reveals. The technology builds upon the advances of DNA origami, a technique that ...