When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another ...

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

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.

Figure 1: Examples of objects built with scaffolded DNA origami. Here we provide a practical guide to building objects using scaffold DNA origami. We discuss DNA origami design rules, introduce a ...

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...