BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab recently completed a five-year project for the U.S. Air Force, developing designs for a foldable space antennae array that embodies design principles inspired, ...

At some point, most of us have learned a little of the ancient art of origami. It’s a fascinating ... The mechanism is based on the Yoshimura crease pattern, which can be quickly modeled with ...

Japan's traditional papercraft, origami, has come to be used in engineering, as researchers observe insects and other ...

They began with the Miura fold, an origami pattern that was originally developed for a completely different purpose—compactly packing up solar panels to power satellites (once they’re in space ...

6 DNA origami is a nanoscale DNA folding technique whereby long ... sequences were needed to instruct the scaffold strand to fold into the desired shape or pattern. In his one-pot method, Rothemund ...

Fynn Jackson creates these intricate origami faces. They're made by improvising folds with paper. Once a crease pattern is finalized, he'll create a folding guide. This kinetic display moves like ...

The shorter strands provided instructions for the large molecule to twist and fold, forcing it to hold a desired shape. Using DNA origami, the team designed 2D triangle-shaped building blocks that ...