BYU engineers have teamed up with a world-renowned origami expert to solve one of space exploration’s greatest (and most ironic) problems: lack of space. Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Origami is no longer just an art form — it has become a powerful tool in modern engineering. By studying how flat surfaces fold into complex structures, engineers design systems that are lightweight, ...

The simplicity and elegance of origami, an ancient Japanese art form, has motivated researchers to explore its application in the world of materials. New research from an interdisciplinary team, ...

PROVO, Utah, March 7 (UPI) --As small as robotic surgical tools already are, scientists at Brigham Young University are combining origami and carefully designed 3D-printed prototypes to scale tools ...

Design by Sara Fang. Buy this photo. Origami is the art of paper folding, where people can make cranes, flowers and other objects out of paper. But Evgueni Filipov, associate professor of civil and ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Robert Salazar has been playing with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, since he was 8 years old. When he sees a sheet of paper, his imagination ...

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Art and engineering intersect in a new design for origami structures that scientists see uses for in everything from shipping packages to exploring outer space. The researchers call their creation a ...

Assistant Professor of Engineering Kristen Dorsey has loved origami since she was a child. “My parents were very tolerant of me trying to fold 1,000 paper cranes,” says the Chicago native, with a ...