The article recounts the Japanese legend of the senbazuru, in which folding one thousand paper cranes grants a wish, tied to the story of Sadako Sasaki, a 1945 Hiroshima bombing survivor who folded cranes while hoping to recover. It notes the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, unveiled in 1958, where cranes from around the world are displayed, and explains that pandemic travel restrictions cut visitor numbers and crane donations, prompting Mazda's distributors, employees and local communities worldwide to fold and send cranes to the memorial.
mazdastories.com
· 2026-10-04
A math education resource outlines the properties of Platonic Solids, the five regular polyhedra whose faces are identical regular polygons, and Archimedean Solids, which use multiple types of regular polygons but maintain uniform vertices. It notes there are exactly five Platonic Solids and thirteen Archimedean Solids, two of which are mirror images of each other, and points readers to 3D models on the Polypad platform for further exploration.
mathigon.org
· 2026-09-29
Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland built a molecular computer called a Scaffolded DNA Computer, using DNA origami to fold long and short DNA strands into a computing grid. Instead of transistors and electricity, the system relies on DNA base pairs binding and unbinding as they settle into their most stable configuration, which represents the solved answer to a preprogrammed calculation. The team ran 10 different programs on the device, including operations involving 100-bit computations, marking it as one of the most complex molecular computers built so far.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-19
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