When scientists try to "3-D print" a structure using strands of tiny DNA, they want to optimize the route that DNA takes in order to form the desired structure. Until now, most DNA-based ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. Today’s tour includes hundreds of easy-to-learn models. You can start with regular printer paper, but as you progress you may be interested ...

Once designed, you can 3D-print it as flat faces that can then be connected at joints and folded into the final shape. The team says that this approach combines the best bits of both 2D ...

The origami menagerie that graces the tree at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 8) includes beetles, butterflies, and grasshoppers, in both a nod to the past and a preview of ...

Catherine's friend made her origami-print dress "I was at the freshers fair for societies and as I'm not a particularly sporty person not a lot was appealing to me," she says, "I then saw a young ...

Print. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — Robert Salazar has been playing with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, since he was 8 years old. When he sees a sheet of paper, ...

It’s no surprise that there are origami fanatics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paper folding is, after all, an exercise in engineering; there’s a branch of math called origami ...