In 1875, Arthur Liberty established a fabric company at the forefront of the aesthetic movement, and within 20 years was a ...

The most notable attraction in the small Southern town where I grew up was a few acres of protected park called Swan Lake Iris Gardens. Eight species of swans, from the classic North American ...

The artwork on this month’s cover of ImagineFX magazine is an example of one of the studies and sketches I do every morning to better myself as an artist. I drew this figure with the goal of working ...

The design envisions active involvement of local residents in the building process, framing the stadium as a collective act of recovery after the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. Structural ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A 20-year-old student at Florida Polytechnic University is a published scientist after he and his professor discovered peacock feathers can be used in laser physics.

Anthony Fiorito, a senior engineering physics major at Florida Polytechnic University, was published as first author of a study that found that when infused with a specific dye, peacock feathers can ...

Peacocks are famous for their beautiful and intricate feathers. Fanning out in an amazing display, peacocks exhibit this behavior for a few main purposes. This display involves both visual and ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

Rama Shankar Singh received funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada He is affiliated with Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University. McMaster University provides ...

On a microscopic scale, the extravagant eyespots of a peacock’s tail are built like optical machines — arrays of nanoscale rods and sheaths arranged with mathematical precision. But these intricate ...

Growing up on a rural farm, I was surrounded by an eclectic mix of animals that freely roamed the land. So colorful and spirited was our menagerie that my school bus driver affectionately dubbed our ...