Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

A high school student shattered the myth that it’s impossible to fold a piece of paper more than eight times. Britney Gallivan (USA) was challenged by her calculus teacher to fold a single piece of ...