Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: ...

A 14-year-old origami artist explains how a simple piece of paper became the start of a real scientific discovery. After studying the Miura-ori fold, a pattern once used for a solar array sent into ...

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

Folding a flat piece of paper into a torus — a shape with a hole in the middle — demands origami skill. That’s something mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz lacks. Yet he answered a lingering ...

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 ...