Start by mastering the basic folds like the valley and mountain folds. These are the building blocks of origami. A valley ...

Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create flower-like shapes, which ...

Researchers have developed origami-inspired bloom patterns that improve spacecraft design by enhancing deployment reliability ...

The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation of space ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty.

Kelvin Wang created this new origami style as part of his work in the engineering department at BYU, where they’re studying ...

Wang's love of paper folding just led to a discovery that added a new chapter to an art form that can trace its roots back ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Japanese art of paper folding a single square sheet into a finished sculpture has inspired engineers to design robots, antennas and other components for NASA ...