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Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material ...

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One of Brigham Young University engineering professor Larry Howell's initial origami projects was a solar array that compacted to 9 feet during launch, but deployed to 82 feet across in space to ...

Rising rates of heart rhythm problems are colliding with an aging population and crowded hospitals. At the same time, many people still rely on bulky monitors and sticky disposable patches to track ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

“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. “I thought it ...

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the ...