A crumpled-up sheet of pinkish paper could maybe pass for a brain, if you squint. Apparently, there's a scientific reason for the resemblance. It turns out that the folds in a simple crumpled sheet of ...

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 ...