If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins ...

Anyone trying to refold an opened road map is wrestling with the same sort of challenges confronted by origami designers and sheet metal benders. The problem of returning a creased sheet to its neatly ...

Sure you could hide your maps on the edge of your notebooks, but if you want access to full maps but don't want to look like the tourist wrestling with an unwieldy map, then you need to learn some ...

Last month, Tonika Lewis Johnson won a MacArthur “genius grant” for folding a map of Chicago in half. It’s a simple but ...

A folded map is a thing of beauty — quiet and dignified. It exists to remind you that the world cannot be folded up. Its wonders are to be experienced and explored, not explained. With every wrong ...

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA began retracting via remote control a 115-foot solar panel on the international space station Wednesday, likening the tricky task to folding a road map back up and stuffing it in ...

Road maps produced by the Northern California State Automobile Association, long appreciated by travelers and cartographers for their utility and beauty, are going the way of car-hops, drive-ins and ...