Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...

The animals' camouflaging capabilities have long inspired humans. The new material could one day help researchers improve ...

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...

Many home landscapes burst with color in early summer, only to fade into a flat, uninspiring green by midseason or become visually empty once flowers disappear. This often happens because gardeners ...

Long shadows of a dog and its person, legs stretched by the low angle of light reveal a pair linked by more than the leash between them. There is softness and depth to the figures. Their forms emerge ...

There’s a time and a place for minimalism, but if you’re more inspired by the bright-patterned, plant-filled palaces that Justina Blakeney publishes on The Jungalow than stark, less-is-more design, ...

Aleda O’Connor gets the urge to pick up her oil pastels. is an art historian, public speaker, curator, YouTube video maker and former professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Some things I will never understand. One of them is minimal bedding. I see these modern and contemporary homes that parade their restraint like a badge of pride. Why, oh why would anyone want a spare, ...

Rugs can transform any room by adding softness, colour, and personality. They anchor furniture, define spaces, and turn ordinary floors into inviting corners. Rugs have a funny way of sneaking into ...