Walk down the street in New York City after a particularly rough thunderstorm, and you’ll see dozens of beaten, broken umbrellas stuffed into trash cans. These $5 drug store umbrellas all suffered the ...

The design of the steel-ribbed umbrella has changed little since it was introduced in the 1850s, but the mechanical engineers and origami experts who made an umbrella that works by folding say they’ve ...

A fold-out solar umbrella design that was inspired by NASA spacecraft and origami could bring clean energy to beachfront resorts this summer and beyond. The “Parelio for Sammontana” design is a ...