Fourth-generation Hawaiian quilter Cissy Serrao and Smithsonian specialist Inger de Montecinos talk about a ‘Quilt Along’ event held by the Smithsonian National Museum.

Here’s something they don’t teach you in school: Georgia has more to offer than peaches and traffic. Tucked away in ...

Sarah Cain showed off her quilt pattern in the Bayview, which was inspired by the mural. Photo curtsey to Sarah Cain. “Excelsior Buzz” is a recurring column on changes, tidbits and other news from the ...

The chemical composition of meteorites and asteroids acts as a kind of fingerprint, providing information about the origin of the building materials that formed the Earth. Using a new analysis of ...

A set of children’s building blocks (Anker-Steinbaukasten) that belonged to Albert Einstein Christie's Albert Einstein spent his life trying to understand how the universe was built—its hidden order, ...

HARKER HEIGHTS — Quilters in Texas joined many others on Quilts of Valor Foundation’s National Sew Day to prepare hundreds of quilt squares that will be sewn into quilts for distribution to current ...

When 23-year-old Wang Jihua spent 260 yuan ($37.3) on a mortise-and-tenon toy building block recreating Xi'an's Bell Tower (Northwest China's Shaanxi Province), he said that he was not just buying a ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

A decade before Joel Redon died of AIDS in Sonoma County in 1995, the young writer traveled to Morocco to study under American expat author Paul Bowles at The American School of Tangier. Patrick ...

Now, a new study published in the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering reports that sargassum seaweed could be transformed into the next generation of eco-friendly building blocks. The ...

In Tübingen, Germany, TriqBriq is creating eco‑friendly homes from modular wooden blocks made with recycled materials, offering a low‑carbon alternative to concrete. A German city is building an ...

Out of every wood type in Minecraft, acacia planks are some of the least used building blocks. Players usually avoid chopping savanna trees and get acacia. Though there is no particular reason as to ...