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The icon has various iterations, but all convey the same meaning: an image should be here. Christopher Schaberg, CC BY-SA

Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet’s most...

Christopher Schaberg, Washington University in St. Louis It’s happened to you countless times: You’re waiting for a website to...

New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the...

Kai R. Larsen, University of Colorado Boulder; Roman Lukyanenko, University of Virginia, and Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College Technological...

How AI can help in the creative design process

Tilanka Chandrasekera, Oklahoma State University Generative artificial intelligence tools can help design students by making hard tasks easier, cutting...

What is the Japanese ‘wabi-sabi’ aesthetic actually about? ‘Miserable tea’ and...

Paul S. Atkins, University of Washington On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore...

Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist...

Lan Anh Nu Ton, Texas Christian University For decades, marketers of consumer goods designed highly adorned packages, deploying bold...

How building more backyard homes, granny flats and in-law suites can...

Jeff Kruth, Miami University and Murali Paranandi, Miami University To many people, the image of a nuclear family in...

3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms...

James Rose, University of Tennessee In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry and...

3D printing promises to transform architecture forever – and create forms...

James Rose, University of Tennessee In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry and...

EXPLORING NATURE

How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...

Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

Can the world quit coal?