Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have developed self-folding smart sheets of fiberglass inspired by the ancient art of origami. The team ...

*There's a lot to admire here, but I especially like the provocative line about doing computer origami in materials other than paper. How about gigantic sheets of stainless-steel? *The starkness of ...

Origami has been surprisingly prominent in science news of late, with this latest art project the smallest story to date. Scientists in the US claim to have successfully folded a single sheet of ...

Professor Uehara from JAIST works at the intersection of theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and the art of solving puzzles. His research strives to understand the computational ...

Plastic with a thousand faces: A single piece of Nafion foil makes it possible to produce a broad palette of complex 3-D structures. Researchers now describe how they use simple chemical 'programming' ...

Sheets of plastic that fold into tiny pyramids, boxes and spheres when water is added have been created by French researchers. They think the technique could one day be used to mass-produce the ...