Imagine building a fully functional pool table out of LEGO bricks for a fraction of the price of a real one – that’s exactly ...

A month out from their leaders’ summit, few are expecting any meaningful improvement in ties between Beijing and Brussels.

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

From billiard balls to celluloid On June 15, 1869, John Wesley Hyatt, along with his brother Isaiah Hyatt, received a patent for celluloid, the first synthetic plastic.

No natural material other than elephant ivory had the physical size, strength, and beauty to perform in the billiard room and the concert hall. But mass markets in the western world for ivory billiard ...

FROM THE PRICE AND PROMISE of a single egg to the life of the chicken who laid it, here are eight stories that reflect upon the world’s most popular bird.

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to make realistic 3D billiard or pool balls with custom text & reflections. Note: 3D is only available in the Extended version.

When John Wesley Hyatt discovered the first practical artificial plastic in 1869, the American Inventor might not have anticipated that ...

Researchers at Tampere University and their collaborators from Germany and India have experimentally confirmed that angular momentum is conserved when a single photon is converted into a ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

The Scene’s newest reporter travels the city in search of her Holy Grail — perfectly cold, perfectly cheap domestic beers ...