When my son was near the end of his primary school years, I thought that it was time that I should impart some of my Weird Freaky Science Wisdom - and have a little bit of fun as well. I told him that ...

Imagine this: With a simple flash of light or heat, an unassuming piece of paper folds itself into a crane and, as the light pulses, flaps its paper wings in flight. Though the concept is still in its ...

A new trend showing how to close your cereal box properly has popped off on social media, but how do I do it? With everyone in lockdown, people have resorted to coming up with some seriously genius ...

When I was a student (circa the late 1970s) and when I started out as an engineer (circa the early 1980s), the printers we used were dot-matrix or line printers of the continuous feed variety. The way ...

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 ...