More than 2 million adults living in the United States rely on a caregiver's assistance to eat daily meals. In addition to ...

Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of kirigami, the team has developed a method to transform a simple sheet of material ...

They are called karakuri puppets and they have been used in Japan as early as the 17th Century. The technique is called Kirigami which differs to origami as the paper is cut rather than just folded.

Researchers have built a mechanical computer inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting. The proof-of-concept computer, which includes no electronic components ...

Perhaps the most interesting part is how much of these technologies borrow from the Japanese art of origami, and the related kirigami. Rather than trying to build three-dimensional structures ...

Paper is a modest material with rich affordances for craft and design. In this work, we explore shaping carbon-coated paper with manual and digital fabrication processes to create functional and ...

Reflections from Los Angeles: a local writer's personal account of the LA fires Architecture writer and local resident Michael Webb reflects on the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires and offers his ...