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 ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

Researchers have folded their way into a groundbreaking new family of origami patterns. Dubbed bloom patterns, because they resemble flowers as they unfold, the new class of origami shapes holds great ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

VALORANT's 2025 VCT season is here, and Riot Games is putting a new spin on its VCT skin set tradition with a unique bundle ...

Originally inspired by and modified from Southeast Asian rice harvesting tools, karambit knives have been a favorite in the martial arts, tactical and military communities for years. But the ...

“Origami wasn’t available at a large scale in packaging applications,” says Jarmo Kouko, a research team leader at VTT, a research and technology company owned by the Finnish government. “I thought it ...

It’s easy to say utility knives are a dime a dozen. Then something really different — like Rivery MFG’s Zero-6061 or The James Brand’s The Palmer Clear — crosses your path and leaves you thinking ...

Sun Oct 27, 2024 04:15 PM Last update on: Sun Oct 27, 2024 04:26 PM Origami is a diverse array of folding techniques, each with its unique vocabulary and looks. Traditional designs include a square ...

The latest leaks from data miner HYPERMYSTx indicate that a brand-new "karambit-style" Heirloom is potentially in development for Apex Legends. This information has been sourced by the leaker from ...