Crumpling is a ubiquitous, though poorly understood, physical phenomenon. It occurs when a fender absorbs the energy of a car crash, when Earth’s crust buckles at the interface between colliding ...

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While working on his doctoral thesis at Harvard University over the last few years, Omer Gottesman spent a lot of time at his desk crumpling sheets of paper, especially when he was stuck. He would ...

It’s mind-bending but true: the average ball of crumpled paper is one of the most mysterious puzzles in physics. (Adobe Stock) Researchers from Harvard University’s department of applied physics have ...

WHEN you throw out your Christmas wrapping paper this year, don’t tell Narayanan Menon and Anne Dominique Cambou. You’ll be throwing away examples of their painstaking research. That’s because they ...