Shape-shifting buildings might sound like the stuff of science fiction — but scientists from Harvard have developed a new material that could potentially make such buildings a reality. Objects built ...

Crawling back in time to take a leap into Japanese culture, we find the real meaning of ORIGAMI where ORI means folding and GAMI means paper. After the invention of paper, paper folding emerged as ...

Origami and kirigami have inspired a multidisciplinary team of engineers and architects to apply these ancient paper-folding art techniques to geometric principles and thereby create living buildings ...

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, ...

A gigantic paper tree with shlokas inscribed on it; a paper model of the rotating sun that pays homage to the supreme power; an empty room with mirrors for walls and a ceiling covered with paper ...

Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...

Sandwiched between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the small, oil-rich emirate of Kuwait is now one of the less high-profile Middle Eastern countries. Back in the 1970s, though, it was the poster child of the ...

(Nanowerk News) For the past few decades, scientists have been inspired by the blueprint of life, DNA, as the shape of things to come for nanotechnology. This burgeoning field is called DNA origami.

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 ...

Origami, the traditional Japanese art of folding paper, might seem like little more than a childhood pastime. But artists Miri Golan and Paul Jackson have spent years using it to… Origami, the ...