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 ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats these crinkles as elegant solutions to geometric problems.

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.

Origami is revolutionizing technology, from medicine to space The centuries-old art of folding paper is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and even the human body.

Car manufacturers, for instance, use origami mathematics to compute a crease pattern for folding airbags into flattened shapes.

They’ve begun making progress on the mathematics to prove that the shapes they’re folding can actually be made with the crease patterns they’re using.

These experimental knitted structures showcase how stitch patterns can be engineered to create self-folding and shape-morphing textiles.

A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations without using radicals or irrational numbers.

If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...