MIT researchers have developed a scalable, origami-based construction system. It uses modular building blocks ...

An MIT-led origami construction method connects folded metal modules into curved shells. Prototypes and a library sculpture show how the approach can scale.

Folding a single sheet of paper into a small size and spreading it out wide. Origami holds the wisdom of changing shape ...

According to Shivali, the mother-daughter team has achieved 31 Guinness World Records. Their creations include paper animals, ...

Traditionally, when it comes to high-tech self-assembling microscopic structures for use in medicine delivery, and refined, delicate grippers for robotics, there’s been a dearth of effective, ...

Do you think of 'origami' as just a childhood game?Actually, a period has begun where people around the world are bringing ...

My dining table usually becomes a desk by accident. A laptop lands there after breakfast, then a notebook, a charging cable, ...

Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours." Smith has covered a wide range of subjects, ...

Origami might seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for scientists and engineers, yet the centuries-old Japanese art of paper folding is behind all sorts of new innovations. That’s because ...

"Part of the challenge of folding is to capture the feeling I get when I look at real animals," says Robert Lang. (Above, his 5-inch Tree Frog, opus 280.) Robert J. Lang Lang first folded his Black ...