Winston Fuller, a professor of creative writing at West Virginia University, urges his students to “sense the fragrant tenderness of ordinary things” when he teaches them about haiku. But it wasn’t ...

Ever looked at a croissant and thought, “This belongs in a chicken’s body”? Diego Cusano has, and he made it art. Calling himself a “Fantasy Researcher,” Cusano creates quirky, imaginative ...

Most of us form attachments to simple, everyday objects such as a coffee mug, a pen, a Swiss army knife or a pair of scissors. Ordinary things we love to use on a daily basis can be very beautiful and ...

A new secret society has taken over London’s Somerset House. The neoclassical building’s terrace rooms have been converted to an exhibition hall and headquarters – complete with gin bar – for the ...

Smartphones and tablets allow us to do amazing things. They help us gather and organize information and learn about our world. They can keep track of our personal bank accounts and the national debt.

Physicists have developed a new tool that can be used to search for quantum effects in an ordinary object. At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave ...

Ancient Mayans farmers, builders and servants left records of their daily lives with the objects they embedded in the floors and walls of their homes during rituals in which their houses were burned ...