Miki Tsuzaki, who has worked at the atelier for 22 years, specializes in binding and gold embossing. Her movements must be ...

Heather Christle’s “In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf” is an unusual blend of personal and ...

This hydrating hand sanitizer spray and clever tubing mascara really *do* feel like magic, after all. View Entire Post › ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To the untrained eye, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Ice Core Facility ...

The doublet gems were created by laying a thin sheet of opal over a mother-of-pearl base to amplify the combined gem’s iridescence. “It is a challenging technique because the stone can break ...

Chinese scientists have found a way to squeeze metals into ultra-thin sheets – no more than a few atoms thick. Some experts believe the feat could revolutionise the way electronic devices are ...

Mother in mother-of-pearl? It only makes sense. Look 20 from Loewe’s spring 2025 women’s collection, one of the inspirations for Nicole Kidman’s Palm Springs Film Festival gown.

Once again, mother nature provides. One of the most well-known attributes of these saltwater bivalve mollusks is the iridescent composite material nacre—also known as “mother of pearl ...

These grooved sheets were then stacked with thin polymer layers in between. The third type was similar to the third, but the researchers cut through the cement completely, creating separated ...