Despite the many advances in portable electronic devices, one thing remains constant: the need to plug them into a wall socket to recharge. Now researchers have developed a light-weight, paper-based ...

Long time ago, glassware was very expensive. Instead, people would paste a kind of Korean paper to their window frames. When the New Year came, people would paste once again to give it a new look. But ...

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US attached the “kirigami film” to a volunteer’s knee and found that each time she bent her knee, the film’s slits opened at the ...

Have you ever cut out paper snowflakes? You probably didn't use a big, clunky pair of sheep shears to do it, did you? Historically, the people of Poland have cut wycinanki (pronounced vee-chee-NAN-kee ...

Li Yunxia deftly snips away at a piece of folded red paper using small scissors with very sharp blades. Soon, a dog’s head emerges. The canine has a plum blossom design on it and even carries a gold ...