• Origami creatures flock to this garden sculpture show

    Origami creatures flock to this garden sculpture show

    Dec 06, 2016 07:29 PM EST

    ... the other origami artists featured in the exhibit is Robert J. Lang, who is also a physicist. He says in addition to the beauty of origami, there are applications for important technical innovations. “People over the last 20 years have used origami techniques to make heart stents, telescopes and airbags ...

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    Paper Profits: Origami Meets Science

    Mar 05, 2009 08:11 PM EST

    ... description of origami, of folding, it’s not only useful in the creation of art, but it’s also useful in the solution of other technological problems,” Lang told Winerman. Link to the story right here and to a narrated slide show of some of Lang’s amazingly complex origami.

  • Nagasaki marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing as survivors place hopes of nuclear ban in hands of youth

    Nagasaki marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing as survivors place hopes of nuclear ban in hands of youth

    Aug 09, 2025 10:37 PM EST

    ... I simply seek a world without war," said Koichi Kawano, an 85-year-old survivor who laid flowers at the hypocenter monument decorated with colorful origami paper cranes and other offerings. Some others prayed at churches in Nagasaki, home to Catholic converts who went deep underground during centuries of violent ...

  • Underwater sculpture installations highlight the dangers of climate change

    Underwater sculpture installations highlight the dangers of climate change

    Aug 16, 2024 10:30 PM EST

    ... the small nation of Grenada, paradise in peril. Jason deCaires Taylor: They're small boats. They're made to look like they're fabricated in origami. They're actually made in marine stainless steel. And they encompass these local school children. And they have sails which also sort of depict ...

  • Issey Miyake, famed Japanese fashion designer of bold and down-to-earth clothing, dies at 84

    Issey Miyake, famed Japanese fashion designer of bold and down-to-earth clothing, dies at 84

    Aug 09, 2022 02:38 PM EST

    ... 1970s among a generation of designers and artists who reached global fame by defining a Japanese vision that was unique from the West. Miyake's origami-like pleats transformed usually crass polyester into chic. He also used computer technology in weaving to create apparel. His down-to-earth clothing was ...

  • Space telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

    Space telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

    Dec 25, 2021 10:13 PM EST

    ... before its infrared eyes are ready to start scanning the cosmos. First, the telescope’s enormous mirror and sunshield need to unfurl; they were folded origami-style to fit into the rocket’s nose cone. Otherwise, the observatory won’t be able to peer back in time 13.7 billion ...

  • NASA’s James Webb telescope poised to launch new golden age of astronomy

    NASA’s James Webb telescope poised to launch new golden age of astronomy

    Dec 24, 2021 11:40 PM EST

    ... from French Guiana on an Ariane rocket built by the European Space Agency. A few days after launch, the telescope is slated to start unfolding origami-style. I's an intricate two-week deployment filled with mission-threatening Achilles' heels, in space parlance, single-point failures. Bill Ochs is the ...

  • WATCH: James Webb telescope launched into space to study first stars and galaxies

    WATCH: James Webb telescope launched into space to study first stars and galaxies

    Dec 23, 2021 08:05 PM EST

    ... start scanning the cosmos. Watch the launch in the player above. First, the telescope’s enormous mirror and sunshield need to unfurl; they were folded origami-style to fit into the rocket's nose cone. Otherwise, the observatory won’t be able to peer back in time 13.7 billion ...

  • Bigger and more powerful than the Hubble, NASA's new telescope will see the "awe-inspiring"

    Bigger and more powerful than the Hubble, NASA's new telescope will see the "awe-inspiring"

    Dec 20, 2021 10:02 PM EST

    ... Nelson told the AP. "So the whole thing has got to work perfectly." The Webb telescope is so big that it had to be folded origami-style to fit into the nose cone of the European Ariane rocket for liftoff from the coast of French Guiana in South America. Its ...

  • For Detroit’s Japanese Americans, oral histories key to preservation of history, future solidarity

    For Detroit’s Japanese Americans, oral histories key to preservation of history, future solidarity

    Nov 17, 2021 09:54 PM EST

    ... during World War II with the reflective movements of the IS/LAND dancers, and Goedert’s Tsuru for Solidarity ikebana sculpture will also appear with origami cranes adorning it. “These women’s stories of resilience and survival, in the face of anti-Asian bigotry and a restrictive patriarchal society, spotlight ...