Rooms drenched in dusky shades (below left) have enjoyed a stretch of popularity. But Los Angeles kitchen designer Caren Rideau expects that in 2026, we’ll say goodbye to “the dominance of navy blue ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Great AI doesn’t happen in isolation. These UX strategies — from confidence scores to graceful error recovery — turn users into active collaborators. The AI ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. What happens when imagination meets perception, and ordinary objects come alive? We explore the science of pareidolia. Summary: Our minds are wired to ...

Part of the GM Advanced Design California Studio in Pasadena, California, a facility that officially launched with much fanfare last year and was home to the creation of a C9 Corvette Concept, was ...

Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources. When you ...

When the Design Mode button in Excel’s Developer tab is greyed out, it’s usually because the feature has nothing to act upon or needs a simple action to activate it. However, there are other reasons, ...

In Part 2 of this series, our author Arun Sahu dives into the core design patterns that make agentic AI systems truly intelligent and adaptive. From self-reflection to multi-agent collaboration, these ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...