Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those of ...

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, ...

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into intricate shapes: plants, animals, everyday objects, abstract art… the possibilities are virtually endless. The practice evolved over the centuries ...

The big picture: While companies continue to improve robotic hardware, developing AI software to truly bring these machines to life has remained an elusive goal. This is especially disappointing given ...

The days of getting important documents in the mail instead of a PDF may be waning, but there’s still plenty of mileage left in the Manila envelope. The oversized, heavy-duty enclosures can send and ...

This is the decorative origami paper envelope is a perfect craft that really helps you bring back the art of sending cards. "Snail mail," as it is called, is a lost art, but a beautiful idea like this ...

Some ideas are too good to wait for the slow-moving legislative process in the Massachusetts State House. So last week, the Massachusetts State Police implemented that agency’s own Blue Envelope ...

In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer. It was a simple device: an infinite strip of tape covered in zeros and ones, together with a machine that ...

It’s an ancient form of art, but now origami is providing modern solutions in the fields of space, engineering, mathematics and medicine. For one Canadian aerospace engineer, origami and its ability ...