Karl Lagerfeld's latest collaboration isn't couture or fast fashion—and it's not even something you can wear. Last week, Lagerfeld announced he's teaming with Japanese paper artist Shin Tanaka to ...

Borrowing from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made specially cut tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and reuse (ACS Appl. Mater.

A metamaterial inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, can support nearly 3000 times its own weight. Metamaterials have structures not found in nature, which can give them unusual ...