By the 8th fold (if you can get there), you have a blob of paper 1.25 mm long, but 12.8 mm thick. It's now thicker than it is long, and, if you're trying to bend it, seems to have the structural ...

Self-folding also holds promise for delivering drugs and other therapies into the human body, says David Gracias, ... Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, ...

"Part of the challenge of folding is to capture the feeling I get when I look at real animals," says Robert Lang. (Above, his 5-inch Tree Frog, opus 280.) Robert J. Lang Lang first folded his ...

Samsung is following science fiction’s lead: gadgets with expanding screens have appeared in Westworld, The Expanse, Firefly, Star Trek Beyond, Looper, Minority Report, The One, Earth Final ...

It's easy to fold a piece of paper in half once, twice or even three or four times. ... Charles Q. Choi is a contributing writer for Live Science and Space.com.

Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in their paper in Nature. Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular ...

Folding paper When my son was near the end of his primary school years, I thought that it was time that I should impart some of my weird freaky science wisdom. And have a little bit of fun as well.