In her third book, bestselling author Alice Vincent tries to reconnect with lost parts of herself through sound. In this ...

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Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

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One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study uses DNA origami ...

Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial system. These units couple twisting movement with compression or expansion, and by combining these modules in ...

Katherine Adams and her sister Isabelle have both always loved origami. "We actually learned origami from my dad, who is half Japanese," said Katherine Adams, co-founder of Paper for Water.

To do that, the team 3D printed a ceramic structure based on the Miura-ori origami pattern—which is a way to fold something flat, like paper, so it takes up less space but stays flat overall ...

Brood XIV cicadas are expected to return to Virginia within the next few weeks, but will only emerge in part of the state.