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

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...
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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, won a $25,000 award for his research project combining origami and physics. He measured the weight that Miura-ori origami patterns can hold across various benchmarks. Wu said the pattern ...