14-year-old wins $25,000 STEM prize for origami structure that holds 10,000× its weight

A 14-year-old innovator designed a Miura-ori origami structure strong enough to support 10,000× its weight, earning him the ...

A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

Miles Wu, 14, said an origami fold could hold over 10,000 times its own weight, the equivalent of a NYC taxi cab holding over ...
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US teen creates origami design strong enough to match a ‘taxi carrying 4,000 elephants’

The Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge, which the Society for Science runs, reaches more than 60,000 middle schoolers ...
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14-year-old New Yorker engineers origami structure that defies physics

A massive prize for the science project of Miles Wu from New York, as this young teenager folded papers in the hope of aiding ...