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Human Elements
In Origami, Science Unfolds
Season 1
Episode 6
JK Yang sees endless possibilities in a single sheet of paper. The Aeronautics & Astronautics professor uses origami as a creative way to design foldable structures.
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6:37
There’s nothing Kwasi Addae loves more than Puget Sound.
6:36
Biologist Steven Clark bushwhacks his way up a trail as he searches for the Gorge daisy.
4:22
Ken Wu has always been fascinated by trees. Now he’s working to save them.
3:38
Vikram Baliga is turning everything we know about flight on its head.
3:57
An astronaut’s perspective on her work changes as she looks back at the Earth.
4:33
A fire scientist connects his experience working the land with fire in his home community.
4:36
An astronomer studies the moment a star dies and begins to transform into a black hole.
5:26
Looking for the origins of life in the algae that grows high in the mountains.
5:58
What is it like to study an animal that is almost impossible to see?
6:08
Dr. Bonnie Baird is a translator. But the languages she decodes aren’t any we know.
5:21
We don’t know yet if alien life exists. But if they do, they might think like an octopus.