Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions.

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 ...

Ordered materials with 7-fold, 9-fold or 11-fold symmetries are never observed in nature. Researchers discovered the reason for this when they tried to impose a 7-fold symmetry on a layer of charged ...

The art of origami goes back centuries — enough time to explore every possible crease that can be made in a sheet of paper, one might think. And yet, researchers have now found a new class of origami ...

Marly van Lipzig incorporates sewing patterns into a sleek collection of textiles. Architecture of Prints, as she calls it, is on view at the Design Academy Eindhoven’s graduation show. The collection ...