The ancient and delicate Japanese art of paper folding, or origami, may seem a long way from the hi-tech, highly automated world of twenty-first century automobile manufacturing. However, 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 ...

Those whose paper-folding lives never evolved much past paper airplanes are likely to be intrigued by a new exhibit at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery on the campus of UC Santa Cruz. Origami: Art + ...

Fold the paper in half and then fold it in half again and eventually that piece of paper will be transformed into an airplane, a hat, or a peace crane. Origami - the ancient Japanese tradition of ...

Paper folding is an engaging and fun activity for the whole family that can increase STEAM skills in children. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics and refers to a ...

The fourth graders couldn’t take their eyes off their math papers. Sure, they were folding them into foxes instead of solving problems, but with each crease came a level of concentration and ...

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.