It’s an ancient form of art, but now origami is providing modern solutions in the fields of space, engineering, mathematics and medicine. For one Canadian aerospace engineer, origami and its ability ...

BYU's origami-inspired antenna self-deploys for space applications. Produced by BYU Video. It's hard to imagine modern life without cell phones, GPS navigation, wide-spread internet, weather ...

On April 23rd, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched several satellites into low-Earth orbit including a ...

BYU engineers have teamed up with a world-renowned origami expert to solve one of space exploration’s greatest (and most ironic) problems: lack of space. Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Brigham Young University student Kelvin (Zhongyuan) Wang’s love of paper folding just led to a discovery that added a new chapter to an art form that can trace its roots back hundreds of years. And it ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Robert Salazar has been playing with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, since he was 8 years old. When he sees a sheet of paper, his imagination ...

An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel is packing as much equipment as possible into a single rocket to reduce launch costs and make space exploration more ...

NASA has joined forces with an origami expert to meld art and technology in the creation of foldable solar structures that could one day go into space. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

Origami, the art of paper folding, has been associated with Japanese and Chinese culture for centuries. But now a technologist at NASA is adding a futuristic twist to origami by using it as a basis ...