US teen creates origami design strong enough to match a ‘taxi carrying 4,000 elephants’
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Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu from New York City won a $25,000 science prize after testing 54 variations of Japanese Miura-ori origami folds to discover which design could hold the most weight. His strongest creation could support over 10,000 times its own weight—equivalent to a taxi carrying 4,000 elephants—and he hopes to apply this research to develop lightweight emergency shelters for disaster relief.
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