Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

When you have eight different shades of paper and fold four differently colored sheets together at a time, how many unique squares can you create? Charlene Morrow poses that question as she stands in ...

July 13, Wednesday, 1 p.m. — Origami artist Robert J. Lang of Alamo, Calif., will give this year’s MathFest talk on “From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami.” This free ...

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This origami structure, called “Green Cycles,” by Erik Demaine and his father Martin required a week of improvisation to assemble. Credit: Renwick Gallery The shape of a Pringle, mathematically ...

December 5, 2008 Robert Lang laughs in the face of your paper crane. This former NASA engineer and Ph.D in Physics has spent the last seven years as a professional Origami expert after using computer ...

Barbara Pearl has a healthy addiction to paper. It’s not that she excessively writes on it or uses it for printing, sketching and cutting. Instead, she manipulates it into boats, flowers, cranes, ...

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APPLETON - The rose reaching upward toward a light was born of a single uncut square of paper. Its petals, delicately wrapped into each other, compose a piece that is beautiful in appearance and ...

Say the words 'summer school' and fun does not always come to mind, but like so many things these days summer school looks a lot different. Coppell High School's 9th-grade campus is teaching ...