A recent cover of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A featured a research achievement by Tianjin University. This research team was led by Professor Chen Yan from the School of Mechanical Engineering of Tianjin University. Applying a theoretical model of origami to thick panels they designed a symmetric origami 'waterbomb'. From a pattern consisting of a series of vertices where six creases meet the research team analyzed the symmetric folding of the 'waterbomb' origami. They found that the pattern can have two folding paths under certain circumstance and can be used to fold thick panels. Not only do the additional constraints imposed to fold the thick panels lead to single degree of freedom folding, but the folding process is also kinetically equivalent to the origami of zero-thickness sheets. The findings pave the way for the pattern being readily used to fold deployable structures ranging from flat roofs to large solar panels.