Everyone remembers origami. It’s that thing you did in grade school where you folded a piece of paper into the shape of a bird or a fish. Increasingly, however, it’s also the stuff of serious science.

Robots are taking “dress for success” to a whole other level. A new type of shape-shifting robot can undergo complete metamorphosis in a matter of minutes. The bot is composed of a simple metal cube ...

Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...

What do cutting-edge developments in heart stents, air bag logistics and space telescope lenses have in common with a folded paper frog? These advances in technological design all are based on the ...

Researchers have used origami techniques to design stents, which must be small enough for doctors to thread through a blood vessel and then pop open. Origami by ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore origami and the mathematical art of paper folding.

Dr. Robert J. Lang has been an avid student of origami for more than 40 years and is now recognized as one of the world’s leading masters of the art, with more than 600 designs cataloged and ...

What do flapping birds and space telescopes have in common? To find out, plan to attend the 55th Kieval Lecture, a free event this Tuesday at Humboldt State University. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m.

The action that's been reserved for thin, flexible materials is about to get a boost. Researchers studying the ancient art of origami have figured out some new ways to make rigid, thick structures ...

There's now a way to make "protein origami" — self-assembling shapes made of twisted molecular strands— a new study reveals. The technology builds upon the advances of DNA origami, a technique that ...