Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers from Polytechnique Montréal have unveiled a new parachute concept based on kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and ...

The Japanese art of origami (from ori, folding, and kami, paper) transforms flat sheets of paper into complex sculptures. Variations include kirigami (from kiri, to cut), a version of origami that ...

(Nanowerk News) The ancient arts of origami, the art of paper-folding, and kirigami, the art of paper-cutting, have gained popularity in recent years among researchers building mechanical ...

A new approach to producing metamaterials draws on kirigami techniques to make three-dimensional, reconfigurable building blocks that can be used to create complex, dynamic structures. Because the ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi ...

Grippy sneakers can mean the difference between a swift pivot shot and a sloppy turnover. Thanks to a team of material scientists from the U.S., Canada and Switzerland, nailing that shot could be ...

Image showing how the team applied their method to map the internal trajectories of the rotating units in kirigami specimens. Credit: Qiao et al. Image showing how the team applied their method to map ...

A new image sensor designed using the principles of kirigami patterns could lead to better images from cameras and endoscopes. Developed at the University of Houston and described in Nature ...

Researchers find a new set of geometric motifs that can create self-locking, lightweight, durable structures out of soft materials. The kirigami-inspired designs can support 14,000 times their weight ...