Traditional paper origami patterns have provided a blueprint for engineers to fold up structures like solar panels, airplane wings, and roofs. (Credit: Chen et al. / Cambridge University archive ...

Now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University, Novelino has built her research on a ...

Those who love origami -- recreational paper folding that dates back to 17th century Japan -- can just about fill their Saturdays with club meetings around the Bay Area.

Lang used computational origami to determine how to fold the lens compactly so that it would fit inside a small rocket and then reopen in space.

The basic principles of origami have changed the way biomedical engineers look at their work.

An Origami Artist Shows How to Fold Ultra-Realistic Creatures Robert Lang ditched a career as a physicist to pursue origami full time.

Edgy folds: the origami metamaterial with topological polarization. (Courtesy: Bin Lui/Cornell University) A metamaterial that is soft along one edge and rigid along the other, yet also displays ...