Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the early 1600s, origami involves combining simple folding techniques to ...

(CNN) – Nearly one-third of Joann Fabric and Craft store locations will close this week, and the remaining stores will shut down next month. The company filed for bankruptcy last January.

Neal is a graduate of Boston University. Joann is closing more fabric stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire as the crafts retailer winds down operations nationwide. Earlier this year ...

Aided by RNA origami, the Heidelberg synthetic biologist and her team succeeded in creating an essential structural component of synthetic cells -- an artificial cytoskeleton.

For instance, with Gemini Robotics powering it, DeepMind's ALOHA 2 robot is able to fold origami and close a Ziploc bag. The two-armed robot also understands all the instructions given to it in ...

For Richard Gordon, origami is like a piece of music ... a narrow line along the center of the mask, which melts the fabric into a vertical ridge. The folds of the Airgami mask make it easier ...

Where knitting meets origami Niu explains that the ... requiring external forces like heat or manual pleating. "If we can predict how a piece of fabric will shape itself just by changing the ...

After rolling out going-out-of-business sales at approximately 500 stores, including ten in Tennessee, all Joann locations are set to close following the fabric and craft retailer's auction to a ...

George Kalajian is teaching her the age-old technique in pleating fabric. He gathers cardboard folds to mold the material underneath. This handiwork and precision takes years to master.

David Pleat can still remember the names, 64 years on. He was a 15-year-old boy when Tottenham Hotspur came to the City Ground to play Pleat’s local team, Nottingham Forest. It was 15 October, 1960.