Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

You can make a typical origami crane in about 20 folds. Now multiply that by 300. That’s about how many folds one Finnish artist uses to make his exquisitely intricate origami characters. Twenty-three ...

Paper artist Hiebert (The Papermaker’s Companion) offers a first-rate guide for all manner of paper crafters. A little creativity can “transform a single sheet of paper into fantastic and sometimes ...

Researchers at Brigham Young University have discovered a new class of origami patterns called bloom patterns, which resemble ...

Researchers used their new technique to fold a glass bar (a), create an optical resonator (b) to achieve helical bending (c) and to create a table with a parabolic reflector (middle, lower row).

In the present times, origami-inspired three-dimensional (3D) devices are being developed, where a single sheet of material is folded into small devices. These devices are being developed for medical ...