The changing light of day reflected off water and falling upon a moulding creates shifting highlights and shadow, bringing ...

Then we replaced our stair spindles from white wood balusters to new iron ones and it’s a totally different room! If you want to update your staircase railing, check out the full tutorial below ...

He and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec, one that they planned to fill with 35 metric tons of wood, cover with clay soil, and let sit for nine years.

FlamingPumpkin via Getty Images When humans cover a space using tiles of the same shape without overlap or gaps—a geometrical process called tiling—we will usually opt for a shape with sharp ...

If your stores of wood are lacking, it’s time to get to work: chop-chop! Once you’ve wrangled a steady supply, follow the instructions below to split the logs for better burning. Get ready to ...

Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books. Based on recent calculations, mathematicians have described a new classification they now call a “soft cell.” ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...

Mathematicians have described 1 a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature — from the chambers in the iconic spiral shell of the nautilus to the way in which seeds ...