It was open season on interpreting Brown’s portraits, and that’s where he got his inspiration for Volumes of Light A-G, a collection of 469 photos of disheveled paper that he’s allowing the ...

How scientists are using crumpled paper to better understand DNA. Paper is an ideal model for studying other crumpling challenges, says Siobhan Roberts, such as how DNA packs into a cell or how ...

That’s because they study the physics of crumpled balls of paper, which contain deeper mysteries than you might expect. Take a sheet of A4, scrunch it up and throw it at a colleague.