In post-tsunami Japan, one important lesson was that, after basic needs like eating and drinking were fulfilled, refugees most hungered for privacy and intimacy. These simple foldable shelters could ...

The idea of getting stranded in extreme Arctic conditions is enough to fill even the bravest adventurers with dread. But a new emergency shelter could make surviving in sub-zero temperatures much ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For most, origami is either a reflective, meditative pastime or a frustrating diversion, depending on your patience and level of skill.

This release is available in Japanese. Inspired by the traditional Japanese art form of Origami or "folding paper," researchers have developed a way to coax flat sheets of composite materials to ...

Army-funded researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory are popping out Harvard Monolithic Bees ("Mobees") from multi-layered, laser-cut blocks about the size of a quarter. Inspired by pop-up ...

TRICHY: To create awareness among children about arts and craft and to inspire them to take them up as extra-curricular activities, a pop-up book and origami exhibition was kick-started at the ...

Artist Matt Shlian is great at screwing up. A self-described papercraft engineer, Shlian designs stunning 3-D paper sculptures that fall somewhere between origami, pop-up books, and Minimal Art — many ...

Researchers at Harvard have developed a new technique that uses origami to create foldable 3D shapes, an advance that could be the key to designing pop-up furniture, medical devices and even buildings ...

Scientists have developed pop-up space habitats for future human colonies on the Moon and Mars, using a combination of origami techniques and digital weaving processes. MoonMars, a collaboration ...