Scientists studying the Miura-ori origami pattern have found it has reversible, programmable properties. (Credit: Jesse Silverberg, Arthur Evans, Lauren McLeod, Ryan Hayward, Thomas Hull ...

With the Miura origami fold, a piece of paper can be folded up to the size of a matchbook. Then, when needed, it can be unfolded again in a single motion. (In this case, we just ran the video in ...

A versatile origami fold could be the key to creating just about any structure, from the nanoscale to full-scale buildings, according to new engineering research out this week. A team at Harvard ...

In 1970, an astrophysicist named Koryo Miura conceived what would become one of the most well-known and well-studied folds in origami: the Miura-ori. The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of ...

In 1970, an astrophysicist named Koryo Miura conceived what would become one of the most well-known and well-studied folds in origami: the Miura-ori. The pattern of creases forms a tessellation of ...

Designed by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo, the zipper tube relies on an origami technique called ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Origami-inspired 3D-printed ceramic structures coated with a soft polymer exhibit enhanced flexibility and toughness, overcoming ceramics' typical brittleness.

"The Miura-ori pattern is a form of rigid origami, meaning that the faces of the structure will not contort during folding and the deformations only occur along defined crease lines," the authors ...

"The Japanese Miura origami pattern we've chosen is relatively simple, which makes it potentially suitable for folding many other materials.