Folds up like a brain (Image: Lendon Flanagan/Getty). What does your brain have in common with a scrunched-up piece of paper? That’s no riddle: it’s the latest insight into why ...

Despite technological advances, it is still extremely difficult to peer inside a simple scrunched-up paper ball with any detail. Computer science hasn’t been much help.

It may not look like much, but this scrunched-up piece of paper may have saved the lives of 1,517 people - only for them to perish later on. Because it warned of an obstacle that the Titanic could ...

If the paper stays in its ball, it can likely be recycled. If it bounces back open, it can’t be recycled. Simple, right? Bonus: if you have a cat, those scrunched up bits of paper make great toys.

If you scrunch it into a ball and it holds, ... Research reveals many of the roughly 1 billion Christmas cards and 188 million metres of wrapping paper used will end up in the bin, ...

Try to scrunch up the paper into a ball. If it scrunches, and stays scrunched, it can probably be recycled , external . And if you've bought recycled wrapping paper in the first place, it can ...

The company's name was inspired by the test consumers should do to see if their wrapping paper is recyclable, which involves taking a piece of gift wrap and scrunching it up into a ball. If it ...