For its newest collection, IKEA designers reached back to Sweden's past, focusing its OMMJÄNGE series on folklore and heritage. Here are 12 of our favorites.

Contrary to popular belief, water moccasins and cottonmouth snakes are the same snakes. Both terms refer to the same species, ...

If you spy one of these bright, colorful, and quirky tables at a thrift store, you should snatch it up right away -- it could ...

An animal with a nose so bright that it could guide Santa’s sleigh through the night might be a far-fetched belief, but many animals can actually glow through something called bioluminescence. In ...

“If you’ve heard of minimalist design, it’s the opposite,” Hopp says of maximalism. Maximalist interiors often emulate the richer parts of life. It’s a design style rooted in a more-is-more philosophy ...

Long, long ago a cloud of stars circled a galaxy-size black hole, safely at a distance. Then about 200 million years ago one member of the cloud bumped another, a sun-size star, and sent it toward the ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Short days and fading sun bring more than just cold weather. Bright light therapy may offer a surprisingly simple way to ease ...

As demand for electricity surges in the U.S., one nuclear energy company is offering a simple solution: building with what already works. The Nuclear Company, a startup founded in 2023, just raised ...