For an object we carry, curse, and replace with alarming regularity, the umbrella has barely evolved. Too small, too flimsy, ...

When Larissa Novelino began her engineering career, she never imagined she’d spend her days folding paper. “I was never the crafty, artistic type,” Novelino said. “My mom still can’t believe I ended ...

In typical rollable structures, the cross-section is flat in the storage phase so that it can wrap smoothly around a central hub, and transforms into a corrugated cross-section in the deployed phase ...

Start with a square paper in the chosen colour. Fold it diagonally, joining opposite corners to create a triangle. Unfold and ...

Emergency responders and humanitarian agencies often struggle with the same issue: how to deploy sturdy, lightweight shelters ...

From solar panels to nanoscale machines, physics applications of origami and kirigami have surged in recent years. Simon Perks reports (Courtesy: iStock/Li Kim Goh) We’ve all admired the delicate ...

The findings also offer clues about early animal evolution. Placozoa resemble some of the earliest animals on Earth, which ...