The Library

The hidden engineering language

Origami's real place in the modern world — space, medicine, mathematics, history. One growing, sourced reference. The single thing no one keeps up to date. We do.

Medicine

A fold inside an artery
An old children's fold became, in an Oxford laboratory, a self-opening stent. What is true about it, and what is not yet.
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Mathematics

Beyond compass and ruler
A single fold can do what two thousand years of geometry could not. And the person who first saw this was a woman most textbooks forget.
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Space

The fold that flew
How a pattern of parallelograms became a solar array in orbit — and why it is not, despite what you may have read, the James Webb telescope.
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