Pre-Columbian Archaeology Meets Science Fiction in Max Lehman’s Quirky Sculptures
Max Lehman’s colorful ceramic figures imagine what future archaeologists might make of a civilization of machines.
What would an android’s ancient ancestor look like?
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October's Kicking Off the Week's Best Nail Looks with Inherently Witchy Vibes
A manicure roundup mixes rhinestone stars, glossy black tips and murky green swirls for a subtle start to spooky season.
Spooky season starts at your fingertips.
Benjamin gives YouTube music lessons real buttons and dials
A crowdfunded iPad controller gives musicians physical buttons and a dial for repeating tricky passages in tutorial videos.
Loop the tricky riff with a button.
Photographer Elizaveta Porodina Turns Her Luminous Lens to Insects
Elizaveta Porodina gives insects the saturated color and dreamlike atmosphere of a fashion portrait.
Tiny creatures, cinematic color.
Pumpkin Parmesan Pasta
Pumpkin puree becomes a creamy penne sauce finished with Parmesan and fresh sage in this newly published fall recipe.
Pumpkin season has a savory side.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn
Curiosity’s newly released morning panorama reveals wind-sculpted Martian cliffs that scientists hope to approach in 2027.
Morning light reveals Mars’s mysterious cliffs.
A Modern Japanese Steakhouse Drenched in Denim Hues
Odami’s design for Toronto’s Shinji moves from indigo dining rooms to a surprising magenta-lit bathroom.
Follow the blue room to a magenta surprise.
Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case
Fresh analysis of Hubble observations points to a possible planet assembled from material shed by a dying star.
Could a dying star build a new planet?
Gazier Marine makes her painstakingly detailed graphite drawings at night – and you can tell
Gazier Marine builds softly shaded graphite worlds where human figures, serpentine forms and dreamlike landscapes merge.
These night visions are drawn in graphite.
Textile Artist Kathrin Marchenko Reimagines Iconic Monet Painting as Embroidery Floating on Tulle
A monumental thread landscape turns Monet’s water lilies into a textured, light-catching scene suspended on tulle.
Water lilies, built stitch by stitch
European rover trains for Mars in the desert
A Mars-rover prototype navigates Spain’s desert while its science team directs the rehearsal from Italy.
Mars practice, on a Spanish movie landscape.
At Chanel, Matthieu Blazy’s latest collection takes flight
Matthieu Blazy sends Chanel through a luminous flock of birds, tracing the many styles and selves of its founder.
A runway takes flight
Roasted Autumn Cobb Salad.
Roasted vegetables, chicken and eggs become a colorful fall Cobb with kale and maple-Dijon dressing.
A fall dinner in colorful rows
GALLERY: Audi unveil special livery for Singapore Grand Prix
Audi’s Singapore race car trades its usual look for silver and purple bodywork patterned with a local cultural reference.
Peranakan patterns meet Formula 1 bodywork.
Tobie Tse’s hand-stitched works turn crochet and lace into delicate animations
Tobie Tse turns handmade crochet grids, lyrical lettering and antique motifs into mixed-media animation.
When needlework starts moving
Gigi Hadid Wore Your Favorite Y2K Headband at Paris Fashion Week
Gigi Hadid’s scalloped headband gives an everyday Y2K accessory a fresh beauty moment.
The zig-zag headband returns
Everything you need to know about DMZ mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
Activision previews the evolving home base, deployment choices and progression behind Modern Warfare 4’s upcoming DMZ mode.
Build the base between the extractions.
Meet Lukas Wegwerth and Corinna Dehn’s shingle-clad menagerie
Lukas Wegwerth and Corinna Dehn dress sculptural furniture in wooden shingles that evoke feathers, scales and rural architecture.
Furniture with a feathered finish
ACL Fest 2026 photos: 'MudFest,' Lola Young, Blood Orange, and more
A new ACL photo gallery captures vivid performances and fans making the most of a muddy festival weekend.
The music carried on through the mud
Song-splitting app achieves the impossible in 40 seconds
A hands-on AudioPrism review finds impressive local track separation alongside frustrating controls for musicians trying to practice.
Pull the bass line out of the mix.
How Love And Money designed the identity and tiny typeface for Tame Impala’s synthesiser brand, Orchid
Love And Money explains how Orchid’s flowing identity and compact pixel lettering connect a synthesiser’s appearance with its musical character.
Big design on a tiny screen
Kick Off Adopt a Shelter Dog Month With Us!
Meet shelter dogs with distinct personalities in the ASPCA’s new October adoption and fostering spotlight.
Five personalities hoping for a home
How to record rocket emissions
A research jet flies through a fading rocket plume as ESA and DLR test how to measure launch emissions directly.
A jet goes looking for rocket exhaust.
‘You cannot manufacture what a place means culturally’: Silencio founder Arnaud Frisch on 15 years of cinematic nights out
Silencio’s founder reflects on fifteen years of cinema-inflected nightlife, from David Lynch’s Paris interiors to the venue’s evolving international spaces.
Inside a cinematic night out
In the kitchen with Kim: Easy Pumpkin Cake
Kim Gehling walks through a pumpkin sheet cake that goes from pantry ingredients to a cream-cheese-frosted autumn dessert.
One can of pumpkin becomes a frosted sheet cake.
Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission
A photo tour follows Crew-12 from shared views of Earth to hands-on experiments and floating fresh produce before the astronauts return home.
Space-station science comes with an extraordinary view.
Miu Miu drafts an all-star cast for a collection which marries sportswear and sophistication
Actors and models bring Miu Miu’s mix of athletic pieces, tailoring and playful contrasts to a purple Paris runway.
A sports court becomes a fashion runway.
Available for XBOX Insiders: Mythic Achievements, One of our Most Player-Requested Features
Xbox’s Insider preview introduces a permanent completion badge for earning a game’s original achievements, with redesigned progress and profile screens.
Your finished games get a new badge.
Be careful – women photographers are dangerous, says a new art book
A new photography book brings overlooked pioneers and familiar names into a shared history of creative risk.
Look again at who shaped photography.
NASCAR 26 is easily one of the best track racers on Xbox today with outstanding physics and gameplay
A fresh hands-on review explores NASCAR 26’s dynamic lighting and convincing racing while identifying gaps in its modes and multiplayer structure.
Night-race lights meet tire-smoking simulation.
Nike’s Archive Puts the Design Process on View at New York’s MAD
Nike’s museum exhibition traces familiar footwear back to handmade experiments and wonderfully strange prototypes.
Before the sneaker came the experiment.
Wearable 2-way radio combines LTE group comms and off-grid backup
Poclink’s crowdfunded communicator promises cellular push-to-talk and shorter-range analog radio in a wearable body designed for outdoor groups.
A walkie-talkie designed to ride along.
Van Peborgh Lodge / Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects
A compact mountain lodge reinterprets the log cabin through generous glazing, thick timber walls and a luminous central hearth.
A log cabin opens up to the mountains.
Radical electric bikemaker is coming to the USA next year
Ultraviolette’s electric-bike lineup takes the spotlight as the Indian manufacturer outlines ambitions to enter the United States in 2027.
These electric motorcycles have America in their sights.
Casa Vereda / L'Aura Ortín Architecture for Happiness
Casa Vereda pairs scalloped rooflines and green shutters with warm brick vaults inspired by Murcia’s local building traditions.
Those roof curves continue inside.
This Viral TikTok Post Turned Into A Heartwarming Comment Section Full Of Pet Stories (100 Pics)
Pet owners count the moves, graduations, and changing chapters their companions have stayed beside them through in a moving TikTok-inspired collection.
How much of your life has your pet been there for?
'Magic: The Gathering' is exploring strange new worlds with the 'Star Trek' 60th anniversary crossover (interview)
A new designer interview reveals how Magic’s Star Trek crossover turns exploration and moral dilemmas into playable mechanics.
What if the Prime Directive were a card-game decision?
Under the Drying Nets / Multi-Architecture
Peach-colored fishing nets form a canopy over a waterside path, turning a familiar working material into an atmospheric public pavilion.
A fishing net can become an entire room.
This Artist Makes Playful Art From Fruits, Vegetables, Candy, And More (25 New Pics)
Sarah Rosado turns dragon fruit, cereal, and spaghetti into playful characters by making each ingredient’s natural color and texture part of the picture.
That Dalmatian is made of dragon fruit.
Flying cell tower beams phone signal to Japan from 10 miles up
New reporting explores Sceye’s completed airship test, which delivered mobile service to ordinary phones above Japan and trialed airborne computing.
This airship carried a working cell tower into the stratosphere.
Tomás Saraceno Returns to the Past to Envision a More Just Future
Tomás Saraceno’s Munich exhibition connects climb-through webs, an inflatable plastic-bag cavern and community-woven blankets in a playful exploration of shared life.
Walk into a web, then a cavern made from plastic bags.
Biomorphic tattoos: The botanical trend for our hyper-digital times
Tattoo artists reinterpret vines, shells, and microscopic forms as fluid body art that imagines nature and technology growing together.
These tattoos look like something that could grow.
'Back from outer space': How Karina Rykman escapes from Earth in her new album 'Late Checkout'
Karina Rykman connects touring, digital overload and cosmic escape in a new interview illustrated with playful imagery and a recent light-filled concert.
A bass line, a trampoline and a little cosmic escape.
A West London extension thinks big, bringing light and flow to a neglected period lean-to
A tired West London lean-to becomes a bright family kitchen through twin arches, rooflights, warm wood and carefully placed flashes of color.
Two arches give this narrow house room to breathe.
Maple Oat Pecan Scones
Sally McKenney builds extra crunch into maple scones by toasting oats and pecans, glazing them in syrup, and folding them into a cold-butter dough.
The crunch starts before the dough does.
color-shifting light sculpture suspends above orchestra at walt disney concert hall
Grimanesa Amorós programmed a monumental curtain of light to move with an orchestra, connecting sculpture, concert-hall lighting and Scriabin’s music.
The concert hall became another instrument.
16 Contemporary Female Painters Use Fabric as a Means To Explore Memory and Identity
A new look at the Interlace group show reveals how painted lace, billowing cloth, and a built-up bodice can carry stories of memory and identity.
Is that lace real, or painted?
A London workspace built around the warmth of the ‘hearth’ – not just for the reasons you’d think
SODA turns a 1920s London building into a warm, calm workspace organized around a shared tea point and a local maker’s fireplace legacy.
This office puts the tea point at its heart.
Diamond polish and 18-karat ornaments: Jewellery is taking over nail art
From chunky gems to precious-metal ornaments, elaborate manicures are turning fingertips into tiny jewellery displays.
Your next statement accessory could be your manicure.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a fantastic sci-fi racing game that captures the wonderful weirdness of the galaxy far, far away
A hands-on review explores the strange rivals, exploding speeders and risky boosts that make Galactic Racer feel at home in Star Wars.
The Outer Rim has a need for speed.
“It’s This Way of Seeing:” Ahead of Celine’s Spring 2027 Show, a Conversation Between Fan Accounts @OldCeline and @CurrentCeline
Two Instagram archivists compare Celine’s past and present.
Two feeds, one fashion obsession
Your Los Angeles Restaurant Weekend Guide: October 2
Crispy-pork khao soi, flaky Caribbean patties, and a corn porridge make a colourful weekend eating itinerary in Los Angeles.
Three very different reasons to get hungry this weekend.
NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
NASA’s latest field report follows research aircraft studying how intense wildfires build towering clouds and carry smoke high into the atmosphere.
Some wildfires make their own weather.
A Trip to the 2026 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse, Where Maximalist Traditional Reigned Supreme
A Brooklyn mansion becomes a room-by-room playground for layered pattern, color and custom furniture.
One mansion, many imagined worlds
You can buy a Server Rack plush toy that actually emits Data Center noise when you hug it
A handmade server-rack plush turns an affectionate squeeze into an abrasive data-centre hum.
This plush toy makes the least comforting sound.
Jammertest pumps up the jam in Norway
In an Arctic test zone, ESA engineers deliberately challenge navigation systems to learn which phones, antennas and receivers can keep their bearings.
What happens when your map’s blue dot lies?
bureau betak places geometric white runway within mist-filled landscape for dior
Bureau Betak threads a bright white Dior runway through trees, water and drifting mist in Paris.
A runway inside a cloud
The 12 best recipes to bake in October
Pumpkin-shaped cake, jack-o’-lantern cookies and miniature apple pies lead a fresh October baking list.
Two Bundt cakes become one edible pumpkin.
End of Abyss: Explore and Fight Through the Abyss’ Horror
The creators of End of Abyss reveal how rough prototypes became an eerie underground adventure through creature sketches, moody environments and gameplay.
This underground nightmare began as a prototype.
The 29-year journey that brought Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara to the Barbican for Haruki Murakami’s cult novel adaptation
Tatsuya Fujiwara returns to the Barbican in a stage adaptation of Murakami’s surreal, divided world.
Murakami’s strange worlds take the stage