How Scientists Adapted an Ancient Art Form to Create Nanoscopic Medical Tools
Holly Greenberg was a 24-year-old graduate student in the mechanical engineering lab at Brigham Young University (BYU) when she stumbled on the idea that folded paper cranes might have any relevance to her work. Greenberg was interested in compliant mechanisms – that is, objects whose motion comes from bending, folding, and twisting. One of her … Read more