Seattle Times

Newly Discovered Origami Patterns Put the Bloom on the Fold

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 ...
Yahoo

A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miles Wu, 14, from New York City, has been folding origami for over six years.Society for Science Miles Wu, 14, won a $25,000 ...
KSL

Unfolding the future: BYU student's origami discovery has space-age applications

PROVO — 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 ...
Physics World

New type of origami features ‘topological mode locking’

Smooth operator: Morph can shift between eggbox and Miura-ori origami patterns. (Courtesy: Allison Carter) An origami folding pattern that produces a highly-tuneable metamaterial has been discovered ...
AOL

A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...