Mark C Urban receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The Douglas fir is a tall iconic pine tree in Western North America forming a forest that winds unbroken from the Western spine ...

The Seams, an occasional NPR series on clothing as culture, has been reporting a series about Florida Seminole Indian patchwork and its heritage and use in tribal life. Read the first installment in ...

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...

Producing brightly speckled red and green snapshots of many different tissues, researchers have color-coded cells in female mice to display which of their two X chromosomes has been made inactive, or ...

Tammy Billie works on a personal garment using her two favorite colors in the Art and Culture Center on July, 24, 2015 at Seminole Tribe of Florida headquarters in Hollywood. There are many patchwork ...