Across the sixty-odd years of his career as a painter, Sam Gilliam was as relentless an experimenter as can be imagined. Born ...

A crumpled paper facade features on The Paintworks, a residential and office building by architecture studio DROO in east London.

From studies of “geometric frustration,” scientists learn how paper folds under pressure. By Siobhan Roberts A piece of crumpled paper, in all of its creased fragmentations, suffers from ...

Citation: "Three-dimensional structure of a sheet crumpled into a ball." By Anne Dominique Cambou and Narayanan Menon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 108 No. 33, August 23, 2011.