Map 2 is a folding paper map of Greater London, with a twist (or rather, with a fold): You can zoom in. Electronic maps, like those from Google, are better than paper in many ways. You can search, ...

Could the solution to the impending battery crunch be... origami? Scientists at Arizona State University have created a lithium-ion battery out of carbon nanotube-coated paper -- and then, by folding ...

Alan Grossman, a New York lawyer, is fond of his gleaming new iPhone 6 Plus. Seated at his favorite cafe on a recent morning, he conjures up a Google map of Memphis. Then, he pulls from his back ...

A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed “DNA origami”.

Mathematicians have not yet succeeded in finding a formula for the number of different ways a road map can be folded, given n creases in the paper. Some notion of the complexity of this question can ...