When you think of origami, the first thing that may come to your mind is a children's pastime, and creations such as simple cranes, frogs or other animals, and maybe a boat or a paper hat. In fact, ...

As if by magic, three squares of paper become a heart, a bird and a box. Origami instructor Janet Deen breaks the magic down into steps to fold the paper into three-dimensional objects. “It’s that ...

Santa Fe artist Kevin Box gives permanent form to traditional Japanese origami in his large-scale metal sculptures. Origami in the Garden, an outdoor exhibition of his work, opens on Sunday, April 27, ...

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

Scientists have created origami-style graphene paper that can fold itself away. The breakthrough was made after scientists discovered a method of using heat and infrared light to move a thin graphene ...

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.