Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...

There’s an urban legend that a piece of paper can’t be folded in half more than eight times, as one fold makes it double in thickness, a process called exponential growth, according to IFLScience. By ...

A computer scientist has developed a method to weave stringy DNA molecules into nanometer-scale, two-dimensional patterns ranging from smiley faces to a map of the Americas. Experts say the "DNA ...

If your kids have lost interest in their Christmas toys but are still playing with the boxes, take heart. It may serve them well in their old age. George Gray is still playing with boxes. And at 83, ...

Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to ...