Load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules -- versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes -- engineers have demonstrated. For ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

Folding something up tightly can save space. People who have lived in a tiny apartment know this. So do drone accessory designers, apparently. Designs inspired by the paper-folding tradition of ...

A satellite antenna the width of a small car, folded down to fit inside a box barely larger than a loaf of bread. That is the ...

For the first time, load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules—versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes—University of ...