Miles Wu, 14, said an origami fold could hold over 10,000 times its own weight, the equivalent of a NYC taxi cab holding over 4,000 elephants.

The Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge, which the Society for Science runs, reaches more than 60,000 middle schoolers across the US. Chosen from nearly 2,000 applicants nationwide, Miles stood ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Anderton, Kansas City-based science reporter and graphic artist. At just 14, Miles Wu of New York City has proven that a ...

Origami is all about folding paper into beautiful shapes and designs. African patterns take this art to another level by ...

Long before screens and styluses, entertainment came in the form of folded paper. One square. No cuts. No glue. Just folds. That’s all it took to create animals, flowers, boats, and birds that felt ...

Adeleke Babatunde’s ‘Origami’ memorialises how the human body remembers pain, love, and faith. Composed of thirty-three poems ...

A young student has crafted a groundbreaking origami dress, transforming fabric and paper into a striking artistic representation of a quantum memory drive. Audrey Zhang, an art and archaeology major ...

A groundbreaking exhibition that reveals the extraordinary power and potential of contemporary origami, “Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami,” opens Sept. 2 at the Schaefer International ...

Who is the beetle that can fold its delicate wings into an origami shape, keeping them safely tucked away as it scampers through dirt and debris? Scientists have long been fascinated by the intricate ...

These could be the stuff of nightmares — if they weren’t so damn cute. Scientists at the University of Washington have developed adorable little electronic “microfliers,” the size of a postage stamp, ...

The combined mental prowess of Harvard University and MIT has yielded a special kind of self-assembling robot that folds up like origami and crawls away. The prototype, which is built almost entirely ...

It was during January's wildfires in Southern California and Hurricane Helene, when Wu familiarized himself with deployable ...