Watch your backs, professional origamists: researchers are working on a sheet of material that can fold itself. The sheets of material, called “programmable matter” by their inventors, use electric ...

As a lousy folder myself, I’ve always been in awe of origami, the ancient, fiendishly complex, Japanese art form that can make a paper crane to remember, and that also, in the right hands, can be used ...

A University of Tartu student has come up with a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem using origami. While folding paper is already used — even in basic school — to demonstrate the well-known ...

The younger kids can enjoy the folding and playing component. Older kids can use this activity to make kitsch party ornaments. Want to join the family? Sign up to our Kidspot newsletter for more ...