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 ...

"Amazing Origami: Traditional Japanese Folding Papers and Projects" (Tuttle Publishing, $18.95) has beautiful folding paper and extensive instructions on how to create origami animals and items. MCT ...

The Cardborigami pop-up homeless shelters are great for people sleeping on the streets of L.A., but they’re just one step in a program to address the issue at its root cause. Like other cities, Los ...

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 ...

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 ...

Origami is the precise, historic Japanese art of paper folding. But sometimes making swans and frogs can get a little dull, right? Origami Master Mark Bolitho thinks so, and has instead turned his ...

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.

Inspired by origami and children's pop-up books, Harvard engineers have pioneered a means of mass-producing bee-sized flying microrobots. The breakthrough mechanizes the already state-of-the art ...

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 ...

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 ...

The folding pattern, known as the Miura-ori, is a periodic way to tile the plane using the simplest mountain-valley fold in origami. It was used as a decorative item in clothing at least as long ago ...