History of Origami The exact origin of the art of origami is unknown. Paper was invented in China in the first century A.D. and brought to Japan by Buddhist monks in the sixth century A.D. However, the written records for the period are limited, so it is unknown whether origami first ...
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...
"Prior to my endeavor, it was the accepted belief that folding a piece of paper in half more than eight times was impossible and seven folds was the commonly accepted folding limit," Gallivan told Live Science in an email. "I was the first person to ever fold paper in half nine, 10, ...
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...
It's perhaps no surprise that the culture that invented origami is also superior when it comes to wrapping presents. Their technique is faster and, with a little practice, easier. Talk about holiday music to your ears when you're staring down a monster pile of gifts. This trick got buzz ...
Ken Blackburn's World Record origami aircraft, designed to beat the then-current distance for origami aircraft. Paper's mass/density ratio is higher than lighter materials such as balsa wood, and so in consequence a conventional origami paper glider (see above) has considerably lower performance ...
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...
(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 bo...
Steve Jobs: (cofounder of Apple) Doug had invented the mouse and the bitmap display. Butler Lampson: (professor of computer science, University of California Berkeley) The SDS 940 [used for the demo] was a computer system that we developed in a research project at Berkeley, and then we ...
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!