The Earth’s waters are rising. Since 1880, global warming has increased the world’s sea level by eight inches, and climate scientists report that the rate of this rise will only accelerate (to the ...

When we last heard about Belgian startup Onak, it was debuting an improved version of its origami-style folding canoe. Now, Onak is back with a considerably smaller and less costly boat, called the ...

In the realm of microrobotics, small and malleable machines are, in the meme-y words of Mugatu, so hot right now. Scientists appear to be doing everything they can to crack the code behind what it ...

It's easy to fold a tiny paper origami boat that 'sails' - but a new full-sized foldable plastic boat can sail with a person inside, and folds out from a single flat sheet in just two minutes. Another ...

It all started one quiet Saturday morning in January, when Tobin Sudo ,9, and his sister Mie started folding paper boats for fun. When their father saw that they had folded an impressive pile of ...

Even Captain Bligh did not have to suffer this. Cast adrift in an open boat, yes. Cast adrift in an open boat made of paper, no. And all in the name of art. To be fair to the German conceptual artist ...