Start your origami journey with simple designs like cranes or boats. These basic models require fewer steps, making it easier for beginners to focus on each fold. By mastering simple shapes first, ...

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MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls. Dubbed the Cryptic B manuscripts, the two heavily damaged fragments ...

Since 2001, "Edmond's Public Art Program has helped fill the city with a sense of community and culture," the city says, with ...

African origami patterns are a beautiful fusion of culture and art. These intricate designs, inspired by traditional African motifs, are a testament to the continent's rich artistic heritage. They are ...

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 ...

For Richard Gordon, origami is like a piece of music. While an individual fold may not be particularly impressive, many together can make the paper sing. A floppy sheet can transform into a flapping ...

Long before screens and styluses, entertainment came in the form of folded paper. One square. No cuts. No glue. Just folds. That’s all it took to create animals, flowers, boats, and birds that felt ...

Engineers are using origami-inspired folding patterns to create deployable structures that shrink down flat and then expand into functional shapes in space, architecture and robotics. Trump’s shutdown ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.