February 24, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google In 1995, Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura designed a folding mechanism intended to deploying solar panels ...

The array can then fold up into a small package to be put on a space satellite before being launched on a rocket. Once in space it could be opened by a simple expansion rod without the help of human ...

If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...

ORIGAMI may be a delightful art form, but is it any use? At the third Origami Science, Maths and Education Conference, held earlier this month in Monterey, California, Roderick Hyde and Sham Dixit ...

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 says ...