Inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting paper, engineers have designed a new type of stent that could be used to deliver drugs to the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

Borrowing from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made specially cut tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and reuse (ACS Appl. Mater.

A spectacular exhibit of Chinese paper cutting, both traditional and a form called “Neo Realism,” is on display in the second floor lounge area of William & Mary’s Sadler Center until Nov. 18. Brought ...

Emma Noyes from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation/Sinixt and Colville Tribes is an artist, author and ...

Whether it's Greek sculpture or Renaissance paintings, paper cutting might not be the first thing you think of when you hear the word "art." The work of Pippa Dyrlaga, an artist from Yorkshire, UK, ...

Reading an actual book or newspaper may be falling to the wayside in today's hyper-digital age, given the ease and convenience of having (literally) millions of online publications and news items ...

In the field survey, it is known that children lack after-school learning space; villagers lack leisure exchange places; the local paper-cut artists need work and exhibition space. Therefore, two ...

An artist is only limited by their imagination and the borders of their canvas – so what happens when you take one of those constraints away? That’s essentially what happened when Erik Ruin was handed ...

Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into intricate patterns—that can automatically adapt in mid-air. The design has the potential to make air ...