Robert Lang's fascination with origami began as a child after he was given a book showing how to fold and crease a sheet of paper to create three-dimensional figures. He loved reading and following ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The way that an earwig insect folds its wings could be applied to how engineers preprogram technology to perform certain tasks, according to research published on March 23 in ...

Researchers have figured out how to make robotic bees using origami techniques that fold carbon and other materials together like a pop-up children's book. This new method will make it faster and ...

Earwigs unfurl their wings in ways that defy the rules of origami. To some, they might be no more than pesky garden insects and occasional nuisances. But upon looking more closely, their anatomy might ...

Brian Chan of the MIT Hobby Shop can fold a pretty mean square of paper. He has a lot of intricate insect origami on his website, but what caught my eye especially were some of his geeky designs, like ...

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Origami splash, by Erik and Martin Demaine Black Man, by Eric Joisel (from the collection of Robert Lang) David Huffman, with one of his paper foldings, in 1978. “Origami: Art + Mathematics,” an ...

To quickly unfurl and refold their wings, earwigs stretch the rules of origami. Yes, those garden pests that scurry out from under overturned flowerpots can also fly. Because earwigs spend most of ...

Now, he designs and folds pieces for collectors and art galleries, while contributing to a growing field of practical applications in space research, medical technology and other fields. “There’s been ...

For researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), it seems as though evolution and inevitability were the two primary factors in developing the latest bio and origami-inspired ...