During his stay at Shands at the University of Florida, 29-year-old cystic fibrosis patient Joshua Abbott got a sense of peace from folding hundreds of origami cranes. And that was exactly what the ...

LOS ANGELES -- An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from covid-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane. Karla Funderburk started making ...

Two 12-year-old cousins are turning multicolored squares of paper into symbols of hope for those facing critical illness. Chad Fisher and Max Schnitzer have schooled themselves in the traditional ...

We first became acquainted with the story of the 1,000 paper cranes when we saw a “flock” of the origami birds at the home of a good friend. An ancient legend says that if a sick person folds 1,000 ...

MELBOURNE -- Behold, the art of the fold. This semester, the staff at Evans Library at Florida Tech has a goal: build 1,000 origami cranes for peace. When Nerdgirl was there earlier this week, the ...

What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-g indicator in the form of an origami ...

In Japanese folklore, cranes are mythical creatures, and each origami crane signifies one year of the animal’s life. When marriage was still a fleeting thought, I knew I definitely would be 110 ...

The delicate and historic beauty of folded Japanese origami cranes is reflected in 10,000 cranes floating in The Museum of Boulder through September, representing the hundreds of thousands of lives ...

Sensei Fumio Demura, the persona Pat Morita took on for "The Karate Kid," couldn't fold a single crane. But over time, he worked hard to fold over 5,000 cranes as a part of recovering from great ...

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