Robert Lang, a physicist who became a leading figure in the world of origami, lost a lifetime's work of folded paper art to ...

Chances are you’ve seen Hoberman spheres, those kinetic lattices made of joint-connected rods that, with a little manual ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a variety of origami-inspired artificial muscles that can lift up to a thousand times their own weight — ...

Origami might seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for scientists and engineers, yet the centuries-old Japanese art of paper folding is behind all sorts of new innovations. That’s because ...

Before becoming a physicist, before being the editor in chief of the Journal of Quantum Electronics, before helping NASA design its largest space telescope, Robert Lang learned to fold paper. Already ...