It’s like a second gift that turns paper waste into beloved paper sculptures. Everyone loves the anticipation of tearing open a meticulously wrapped gift, but this age-old practice leads to a lot of ...

Before becoming a physicist, before being the editor in chief of the Journal of Quantum Electronics, before helping NASA design its largest space telescope, Robert Lang learned to fold paper. Already ...

Portland-based design studio Ilovehandles has created wrapping paper that can have an afterlife as origami figures, to avoid the mess and waste associated with ripping the paper off presents. Each ...

But whatever the motivation, this is an impressive and obviously very well engineered machine. Even the lighting is well considered. It’s almost as if it were made for show… Now, any self-respecting ...

A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.