Octavia Miller is undaunted when one of her antique jewelry-making machines breaks down. She comes from a family of inventors and tinkerers and relies on her mechanical skills to fix things. That's ...

In an age when you can get just about anything online, it’s probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba. If, like me, you haven’t been ...

Every ring holds as much smog as 1,000 cubic meters of city air. On a trip to Beijing three years ago, artist Daan Roosegaarde looked at a sample of the city’s notorious air pollution and got inspired ...