Wiggling walls, doors folding like origami, levitating tables: it might sound like a bad acid trip, but it’s actually the crazy, dynamic house (or museum or restaurant) of the future. Lately, ...

Sheets of plastic made by E. coli can fold into whatever shape you desire. Astronauts on long missions might one day rely on such bacterial origami to make tools on the go. On a spacecraft, every inch ...

An odd armada will take to the River Thames this summer as canoeists attempt a 132-mile trek for charity - in origami boats. It sounds like an unlikely joke, but not a bit of it. Keen to find cheap ...

Motivated by a centuries-old art, researchers have created self-folding remote-controlled materials from paper-thin stacks of graphene. The results are reported on 6 November in Science Advances 1.