Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

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Load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules -- versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes -- engineers have demonstrated. For ...

Hisao Inagaki, Japan’s consul general in Seattle, displays a crane he folded Aug. 2, 2023, in Seattle. He’s been folding an origami crane and recording a daily video, sending best wishes to Seattle ...

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...