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Robert Lang’s largest folded scuplture is a flying Pteranodon with a 14-foot wingspan. His smallest is a 500-micron bird from a programmable self-folding polymer sheet. Then there are the ...

The story was originally broadcast on May 20, 2007. Origami comes from two Japanese words: Ori, for paper, and gami, to fold. Take one sheet of paper, fold it without making a tear and create a design ...

Robert J. Lang helped take origami to the next level, developing computer software to create increasingly complex designs with applications ranging from art to engineering. Cyclommatus metallifer, ...

Physicist Dr. Robert Lang has turned geek pastime into a source of scientific innovation, using the art of origami to make significant contributions in the fields of astronomy, heart surgery and ...

July 13, Wednesday, 1 p.m. — Origami artist Robert J. Lang of Alamo, Calif., will give this year’s MathFest talk on “From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami.” This free ...

Origami splash, by Erik and Martin Demaine Black Man, by Eric Joisel (from the collection of Robert Lang) David Huffman, with one of his paper foldings, in 1978. “Origami: Art + Mathematics,” an ...

Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology ...

There was a fascinating story Wednesday by NewsHour science editor Lea Winerman about a physicist, whose career path took an unusual turn to art. Robert Lang, who studies lasers, gave up his Silicon ...

Last month, hundreds of paper connoisseurs descended on New York for a convention put on by OrigamiUSA, in celebration of the delicate paper arts of East Asia. The event underscores the West’s growing ...