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August 18, 2014

Solar Power, Origami-Style
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2014
As a high school student at a study program in Japan, Brian Trease would fold wrappers from fast-food cheeseburgers into cranes. He loved discovering different origami techniques in library books. Today, Trease, a mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, thinks about how the principles of origami could be used for space-bound devices. "This is a unique crossover of art and culture and technology," he said. Trease partnered with researchers at Bri ... read more

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