- The artist Ida Ekblad’s fortresslike concrete space in Oslo where the imagination can run wild.

Japan is racing to reduce its reliance on Chinese rare earths — from dredging the seabed to inventing new magnets — as its prime minister visits the White House this week.

These valuable vintage cookie jars make for rare and exciting finds at thrift stores.

Cloisonne gets its name from the metal “cloisons,” French for “partitions,” that are filled with enamel, creating the multicolor designs. Despite the French name, the technique has been used in ...

If you’re a completionist, you can watch all of The Man in the High Castle, but for the best experience you can just enjoy the first two seasons. And if you’re still left craving more alt-history ...

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as ...