The traditional Japanese art of origami may have originated using paper, but now, the intricate folds have inspired what scientists claim to be “the world’s fastest, largest, strongest, and lightest ...

One of the problems with natural disasters and man-made disasters alike is that you can't always tell when they're going to happen. Sometimes, they knock out important structures, like bridges that ...

Load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules -- versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes -- engineers have demonstrated. For ...

[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RL9IB90M2o&w=537&h-302] Natural disasters have a way of showing us how fragile and unpredictable our lives can be. Survivors ...

Design by Sara Fang. Buy this photo. Origami is the art of paper folding, where people can make cranes, flowers and other objects out of paper. But Evgueni Filipov, associate professor of civil and ...

Eat your heart out, GI Joe Bridge Layer. A team from the Graduate School of Engineering in Hiroshima University has developed a temporary and portable bridge design that unfolds itself like an ...

For the first time, load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules—versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes—University of ...