If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...

July 2, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Sure you could hide your maps on the edge of your notebooks, but if you want access to full maps but don't want to ...

February 24, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google In 1995, Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura designed a folding mechanism intended to deploying solar panels ...

Anyone trying to refold an opened road map is wrestling with the same sort of challenges confronted by origami designers and sheet metal benders. The problem of returning a creased sheet to its neatly ...

I have a love/hate relationship with maps: I love to get lost in their intricate design, but I hate actually using them — what with the folding and the tearing and the ...