Because DNA molecules are highly programmable, scientists have been working since the 1980s on methods to design DNA molecules that could be used for drug delivery and many other applications, most recently using a technique called DNA origami that was invented in 2006 by Paul Rothemund of Caltec...
They’ve collaborated on a number of projects. Howell admits he was cautious at first, especially when applying for federal funding. He had visions of a senator asking why federal research money was going to origami, something his 10-year-old grandchild knew how to do. One of the initial p...
Research studies say that origami was first invented about a thousand years ago by the Japanese, but its roots may well be in China. The term refers to the craft of paper folding. The word "origami" is an inclusive term for the folding process of paper. "Ori" means "folding," and "g...
Photo: Nomex in robots: For NASA, Nomex is literally out of this world: it's a material they used on the Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER), a planet-crawling rover, designed for extreme places like Mars, that folds itself out like a piece of hi-tech origami. PUFFER's body...
Origami is the art of folding paper, but what's the most times you can fold a paper in half? (Image credit: Aliaksandr Barysenka / EyeEm via Getty Images) A common claim states that a sheet of paper cannot be folded in half more than seven times. But is this true? How many times...
It’s at the very center of our house and you can stand in the middle of it and see the front door at one end and the back door at the other end. I think someone told me the house was designed like that for airflow way before air conditioning was invented. There’s a wrap-aroun...
of Origami during that time. Origami has come to life even before the time of most of the ancient inventions. It is estimated to have dated approximately 460 – 390 BCE. Some historians claim that the Chinese could’ve invented the paper airplane even before the existence of the paper kite...
(Alex Sharp) is drawn from Yun Tianming, a cancer patient with a fatal diagnosis inDeath's End. Tianming is in love with a former classmate he has barely seen, Cheng Xin (in the show she's Jin Cheng, played by Jess Hong). They once shared a meet-cute moment over an origami boat....
And while we are on the subject, why hasn’t someone invented a washable version of the zipper seal bag? I could fold it, reuse it, and store it more easily. It could use origami thinking–like a Chinese takeout container–so it was rigid, foldable, and sealable! You get the picture...
But you’ll soon think differently when you learn more about the art of origami. Remember making paper airplanes at school? And remember how someone, instead of an airplane, made a flower, a jumping frog, or a parrot? That was like magic. And they only had their two hands and a plain...