For Richard Gordon, origami is like a piece of music. While an individual fold may not be particularly impressive, many together can make the paper sing. A floppy sheet can transform into a flapping ...

Jiangmei Wu, an assistant professor of design at Indiana University, is using the ancient art of origami to help solve the problem. She's created a prototype design for a face mask to help protect ...

A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in September 2020 reports constructing disposable masks using simple paper folding or origami steps, from filter material. This could make ...