How proteins achieve their correct shape is the subject of this special Focus. For those who practice the traditional Japanese art of paper folding ... the pieces. Many researchers offered ...

Image caption, Draw half a circle that starts and ends on the folded side of the paper The fold is your shape's line of symmetry so you only need to draw half of your circle. It must start and end ...

However, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have found a way to harness that tendency to warp with heat to make self-folding structures like those seen in the video below. There’s a paper about how ...