A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Sara Fang. Buy this photo. Origami is the art of paper folding, where people can make ...
Miles Wu, 14, won a $25,000 award for his research project combining origami and physics. He measured the weight that Miura-ori origami patterns can hold across various benchmarks. Wu said the pattern ...
The ability for structures to change geometry in order to deliver a particular capability can be useful in a range of applications, including biomedical engineering, robotics, aerospace and civil ...
The winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC) were announced by Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science. The top prize in the event, the $25,000 ...
The tiny robots start out flat, thin wafers of layered silicon, gold and plastic. It’s the heat created by an electric current that makes them fold along etched grooves, bending themselves into ...
When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another planet – they generally have the highest number of needs and the lowest ...