A misguided but well-intentioned anti-bullying message has gone viral this past week. The "crumpled paper" exercise has been used by adults for many years to try to reduce bullying among kids. A ...

Remember the last time you reached into the fridge for the milk, anticipating a full–and therefore heavy–carton, but someone drank the last of the moo and carelessly left the container behind, so you ...

A crumpled-up sheet of pinkish paper could maybe pass for a brain, if you squint. Apparently, there's a scientific reason for the resemblance. It turns out that the folds in a simple crumpled sheet of ...

What is the connection between crumpled paper and marine algae? Saddle-like shapes similar to those found in an Elizabethan "ruff" collar, say physicists in a new article. What is the connection ...

Cramming a big brain into a skull may be as easy as just wadding it up. The same physical rules that dictate how a paper ball crumples also describe how brains get their wrinkles, scientists suggest ...

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 ...

There’s a reason why a new book about helping disorganized teenagers was published midway through the school year, rather than in September. “When you go back to school in September, everything is ...