Researchers have folded their way into a groundbreaking new family of origami patterns. Dubbed bloom patterns, because they resemble flowers as they unfold, the new class of origami shapes holds great ...

The art of origami goes back centuries — enough time to explore every possible crease that can be made in a sheet of paper, one might think. And yet, researchers have now found a new class of origami ...

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem - Freelance writer Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher ...

The ancient Japanese art of paper folding, origami, is finding applications in the design of future space technologies. Researchers at Brigham Young University, led by Larry Howell, have developed a ...

BYU student Kelvin (Zhongyuan) Wang was the lead author of an article detailing a discovery of a new family of origami patterns which have promising applications for a wide range of fields. BYU ...

A grayscale pattern used to create a self-folding flower is projected into a glass container. Light from the pattern forms a solid polymer which is differentially crosslinked, creating stress in the ...