When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another ...

Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those ...

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The $249 Ori umbrella uses origami to do away with that pesky (but long-standing) design feature: the steel frame. But is it ...

For an object we carry, curse, and replace with alarming regularity, the umbrella has barely evolved. Too small, too flimsy, ...

We usually assume that tissue folding (the process that creates organs, embryos, and the deep ridges of the human brain) ...

One of Brigham Young University engineering professor Larry Howell's initial origami projects was a solar array that compacted to 9 feet during launch, but deployed to 82 feet across in space to ...

Plasmonic sensors are extremely promising candidates for label-free single-molecule analysis but require exquisite control over the physical arrangement of metallic nanostructures. Here we employ self ...