Palestinian young man Ahmed Humaid, 28, works on the art of folding paper inspired by the art of origami, inside his house in Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Dec. 31, 2018.

Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient ...

Dr. Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for more than 40 years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with more than 600 designs cataloged and ...

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 ...

Meenakshi Mukerji takes the ancient Japanese art form of origami – or paper folding – far beyond the making of simple paper cranes. Mukerji, a resident of Cupertino, is famous in the origami world for ...

There’s no denying its elegant beauty, but the importance of a designer’s dress pattern seems inconsequential among the examples of how the art of origami has played a role in engineering, ...

Origami is more than just paper folding - it's a way of life and a tool for understanding the world, says Ossama Helmy, founder of the Arab Origami Centre The boundless possibilities that a piece of ...

A plastic bladder folded into an origami shape can stand up to cryogenic temperatures. (WSU Photo) Build a better fuel tank, and the space industry will beat a path to your door. At least that’s what ...

The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding seems an unlikely muse for progressive 21st-century architects. But when tasked with replacing a dark, traditional home with a sunlit contemporary structure ...

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