Vern Jumper, the courageous Navy commander who helped more than 3,000 Americans and South Vietnamese refugees flee Saigon during the final hours of the Vietnam War, died at home in La Mesa on July 4.

As we navigate 2026, the ancient art of origami has undergone a striking transformation, merging traditional folding techniques with modern design precision and digital accessibility. From the viral ...

As another Christmas Jumper Day rolls around, people can often be found scouring their wardrobe and the shops for something fun to wear. Love it or hate it, people embrace the yearly tradition and ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

BYU Engineering is well known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, an undergraduate student made a significant discovery—a new ...

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.

OXFORD — Former Ole Miss basketball guard Tim Jumper, 55, died Sunday, the team announced Monday afternoon. Jumper enrolled at Ole Miss after a high school career in which he was a two-time ...

A dead car battery can happen to anyone. It can happen to you, too, if you forget to turn off your vehicle’s headlights or you accidentally leave accessories turned on like the car stereo. It usually ...