The irony? Fitted sheets were undoubtedly invented to make bed-making more efficient. We can thank Bertha Berman for patenting the fitted bed sheet back in 1959. The original patent application even ...

Fitted sheets are notoriously difficult to fold. It goes a little like this: violently folding and refolding the sheet, sighing in frustration, cursing and eventually balling it up and throwing it in ...

As if a brain-like processing chip weren't bad enough news for us humans, this week's edition of Science also describes a robot that, after being laid out as a flat sheet, can fold itself into the ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

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, ...