February 24, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google In 1995, Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura designed a folding mechanism intended to deploying solar panels ...

ORIGAMI may be a delightful art form, but is it any use? At the third Origami Science, Maths and Education Conference, held earlier this month in Monterey, California, Roderick Hyde and Sham Dixit ...

In 1970, an astrophysicist named Koryo Miura conceived what would become one of the most well-known and well-studied folds in origami: the Miura-ori. The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of ...

A versatile origami fold could be the key to creating just about any structure, from the nanoscale to full-scale buildings, according to new engineering research out this week. A team at Harvard says ...

If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...