Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material ...

A collaborative research team called MoonMars is developing a simple, versatile way of building off-world habitats using origami. Made of high-performance textiles, the origami bases could be ...

Future spacecraft and rockets may have softer landings thanks to technology inspired by origami, the Japanese art of folding. A research team created a paper model of a metamaterial — a highly ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

To get more spacecraft into the smallest possible launch package, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have turned to the Japanese tradition of paper-folding known as origami. The ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Paper Mario series thrives on a clever irreverence that can be hard to maintain. Its outlandish scenarios mash the absurdist, dreamlike world of ...