Origami is revolutionizing technology, from medicine to space. The centuries-old art of folding paper is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and even the human body.

Origami developed from techniques for folding paper that first emerged in Japan during ancient times. The art is now practiced around the world and is even being applied to help solve technical ...

Origami-inspired engineering is rapidly finding applications in technology, moving beyond space-based solar panels and self-assembled manufacturing components to commercial products, including ...

“Origami wasn’t available at a large scale in packaging applications,” says Jarmo Kouko, a research team leader at VTT, a research and technology company owned by the Finnish government.

Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. Between the Folds chronicles 10 of their stories.

Traditionally, origami is the folding of paper into abstract or realistic creations. The Japanese art dates back thousands of years. Now, its principles can be found in many different fields, ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

And if so, what would that mean for the future of design? Explore the high-tech future of this age-old art as NOVA unfolds “The Origami Revolution.” ...