University physicists Thomas Witten and Sidney Nagel have been investigating where energy is stored in thin sheets of Mylar when work is performed on them by crumpling. They find the ability of a ...

Not long after composing perhaps his biggest hit song ever, Elton John performed the song after pulling out a crumpled piece of paper. Yes, that was John’s introduction of “Tiny Dancer” to the world, ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I heard this anecdote in college and a couple of times in the years since then: An applicant goes to a job interview. There is a piece of crumpled paper on the floor of the ...

Take a look at that crumpled-up piece of litter on your desk, compressed by the laws of physics and tossed aside. It remembers what you did, even if no one else does. Crumpled paper is especially ...

EUREKA — Eureka Studio Arts will exhibit drawings from Brent Eviston’s “Ghost Opera” series, an ongoing project that explores crumpled paper as a subject. Eviston will also give a drawing ...

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 ...