Nail art featuring a repeated pattern—like sultry leopard, dainty lace, or structured plaid—makes it easy to experiment. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. No one enjoys suffering. People who persistently find themselves in ...

Employing the technique known as “trompe-l’oeil,” designers have mimicked three-dimensional surfaces to elevate rooms. Le Grand Tour wallpaper, from Schumacher with the designer Johnson Hartig, ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...

Technology has the same story arc every single time something new develops. It starts as something we all share, then becomes something we each own. Your great-grandmother waited in line to use the ...

Los Angeles artist Eamon Ore-Giron with his sprawling panoramic piece, Tomorrow’s Monsoon. James Sullivan. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery The painting, which depicts the transdimensional hybrid ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...

Sonam Sherpa doing research on the Yala glacier in the Central Himalaya region of High Mountain Asia. The Yala glacier has shrunk in area by nearly 70% since the 1970s due to climate change. Glaciers ...