Among my favorite lathe projects is a lamp. They’re not difficult, but I recommend proficiency in using a skew chisel.

Wearing a rugged protective glove, young craftsman Lim Jun Hao skilfully carves the edges of a wooden block. He moves with deliberate grace, using a chisel to carefully shape a cubic block into a ...

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A man in Somerville is working to clear a snow and ice covered sidewalk so people using wheelchairs can get by.

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Every curling stone that slides across the ice at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo traces its origin back to this windswept island off the west coast of Scotland, a place so protected that ...

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A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.

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Lego’s next release is a digital brick loaded with sensors that add new layers of interactivity to its play sets. WIRED got exclusive access to the Lego labs where the Smart Brick was born.

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