The tiny robots start out flat, thin wafers of layered silicon, gold and plastic. It’s the heat created by an electric current that makes them fold along etched grooves, bending themselves into ...

Looking for some good reading this weekend? Then check out Susan Orleans’ fascinating article in the New Yorker about -- of all things -- origami (The Origami Lab). It chronicles the story of how one ...

Origami artist Goran Konjevod works in reverse order; the magic of his creases unfolding over time, sometimes years after the making or imagining. Grounded in mathematics and computer science in his ...

An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel is packing as much equipment as possible into a single rocket to reduce launch costs and make space exploration more ...

The ancient art of origami has inspired designs for numerous pieces of hardware on NASA missions, allowing scientists to pack more technology into smaller space-bound packages. For example, the agency ...

A centuries-old Japanese tradition is the inspiration behind some new NASA technology. Solar panel arrays that fold and unfold like origami could be headed to space. Brian Trease, a mechanical ...

Centaurus High students Chantelle Humphries and Lindsey Welch are experimenting with 3D printing techniques this summer in a lab at the University of Colorado. They’re trying to create ocean theme ...