For many homeowners, pairing patterns is scary because it can turn into a design nightmare in seconds. Here's how designers ...

Though wearing clashing patterns or colors was once only reserved for nerds in pop culture (i.e. Screech from Saved by the Bell) pairing two eccentric prints or colors is now considered a power move.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest option—they fit together without any gaps in a grid pattern that can ...

You’ve probably seen people pull off a perfect mix of stripes and florals or polka dots and plaid and wondered, “How do they do that without looking mismatched?” Anyone can master the art of mixing ...

There are some imperfections, but for the most part these bubbles intersect at three-way junctions with angles close to 120 degrees. This “preference” is dictated by the interplay between the material ...

What happens if you cross a fish that has white spots on a black body with another fish that has black spots on a white body? You might think that you’d get a fish with a single uniform colour, or one ...