A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

A big bouncy park is bringing the fun back to the Lynnhaven Mall parking lot this year. Funbox, a Southern California-based franchise, plans to run an eight-weekend inflatable playground Aug. 29 ...

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 ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

Houston families looking for fun this weekend, have a new option just a hop, skip and a jump away. Funbox, a 20,000 square foot indoor bounce park, will open Friday in Houston, the first location in ...

A fun box office battle is brewing between “Superman” and “F1“: Which big-budget tentpole will be the first to cross $600 million in global ticket sales? No matter the order, these milestones are ...

With Paper Mario: The Origami King, developer Intelligent Systems has once again found a clever new angle from which to explore its spinoff papercraft universe, pitting Mario against an army of ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.

Funbox, billed as "the world's biggest bounce park," has started its summer run at Polaris Fashion Place. The 25,000-square-foot inflatable world launched over the weekend on Ring Road, on the south ...