Presidents' Day is the perfect excuse to pull out the glue sticks and make something proudly red, white, and blue without it feeling like “schoolwork.” These ideas are designed for preschool through ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then ...

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, ...