Once inside, a magnetic field guides and unfolds it at the target site, where it releases medicine in a controlled and steady ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

If you ask anyone what origami is, one might think of paper cranes, animals, or boxes. They might also think of complex origami like different insects or dragons. These are great examples of origami, ...

Thanks to Takayuki Hori’s X-ray origami paper, we’ve had the first look at origami animals’ skeletons since the first crane was folded neatly in the 17th century. Hori uses eight endangered animals’ ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

Two Johns Hopkins University research scientists who use the Japanese art of paper folding, known as origami, as a metaphor for understanding the complexity of the cosmos have been named winners of an ...

View ethereal portraits, mandalas, and origami collages of Laura Naomi at the Southwest Harbor Public Library, starting ...

It’s no surprise that Erik Demaine counts juggling among his hobbies. The 24-year-old–a home-schooled child prodigy who became M.I.T.’s youngest professor ever at age 20–picks off one arcane math ...