The features of the earwig wing, such as self-folding properties, are useful for multiple engineering applications, but the geometrical rules governing earwig wing folding are poorly understood.

A tiny, self-folding dodecahedron may do more than impress an origami master. Inspired by self-assembling viruses and proteins, such dust-size 3D shapes could someday deliver medical drugs inside ...

Engineers would call the QuaDror a “space truss geometry,” a wonky term for a sort of geometrical jujitsu: a structural joint that looks a little like a sawhorse, but can fold flat, making it ...