Anyone can create beautiful patterns on Easter eggs with these simple tricks.

You can hang, press and even microwave a variety of flowers and keep them for years.

You can't eat rhubarb leaves because they're high in oxalic acid, but they're still useful. Here's what to do with them.

The name Unicorn Spit isn't classy, but in the right hands the gel paint can turn furniture and cabinets into sophisticated works of art.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Don't sweat, try these simple tips in and around the gym.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Save water around the house with very little effort.

Taking a short-term food break may have some pretty amazing health benefits.

Toxic compounds called PFAS have been linked to cancer and immune problems, and they may also make it tougher to keep off weight.

The autonomous aircraft Mars Helicopter heralds the beginning of a new era in our exploration of the red planet.

The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will facilitate exploration missions of the moon and serve as a gateway for deep space missions to Mars.

Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster, which was shot into space aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket, is currently on cruise control at a leisurely 34,000 mph.

Annual celestial event often produces large bright fireballs that scorch the night sky.

After landing rovers and its spacecraft on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, JAXA is returning with a sample.

See sculptors from around the world turn piles of sand into beautiful (but temporary) art at the World Championship of Sand Sculpting.

Mike Wendland shares a website's tips for extreme jack-o-lantern carving.

Video: Move over, Georgia O'Keeffe! Masterpieces by Autumn de Forest have fetched nearly $250,000. She tells Matt Lauer, 'I love to paint' and 'I do it every da

Eight year old artistic genius has been compared to masters such as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

More than 1,000 visual art submissions are narrowed down to 5 winners in a unique contest to find compelling images that can be persuasive voices for the enviro

'Over the River' would suspend silver fabric over miles of Arkansas River.

At the Cancun climate talks, one art installation dominated the headlines at a turning point in history.

Experts of Paleolithic art in France say some cave drawings have a reoccurring theme.

Artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang find materials for their eco-art pieces by picking up plastic debris from the beach.

Designer Benjamin Jones wants to erect the Sustainable TreeHouse, an eco-friendly 'interactive playground' on New York City's Governors Island. But he needs you

Here’s a look at 18 of the world’s most stunning treehouses and the unique stories behind them.

A young New Yorker buys, via Craigslist, an uninhabited 91-acre island in Lake Superior with plans to create a small, sustainable artist residency while keeping

Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Aug. 14-20, 2011, including the not-so-nutty professor behind the The Periodic Table of the Elements an

A compilation of the best original stories from Mother Nature Network for the week, including Bear Grylls' eating habits, a webcam of Mount Everest and much mor

Cloud gazing is no longer an activity reserved for the outdoors, thanks to these life-like but surreal indoor clouds created by artist Berndnaut Smilde.

Artist Asher Jay's "Garbagea" confronts us with our throwaway culture in this creative project.

Miss the smells of home? Artist Kirill Rudenko is canning air from many of the world's major cities and selling it for 10 dollars a pop.

Sure, they do a better job at posing for photos than discouraging birds, but this army of eclectic scarecrows installed at one of the Hudson's grandest historic

A folk hero/renegade builder is sentenced to 539 days in jail after failing to pay for the demolition of hi folk private residence/art installation.

The days' dappled sunlight complemented the nights' glowing trees at this music festival near Lake Michigan.

Filipino artist and environmentalist Vincent Francisco Navarro paid homage to coffee farmers by painting portraits of them with used grounds.

These stunning busts are crafted using recycled circuit boards, CPUs, wiring, keyboards and other salvaged electronics.

It's amazing what light can do when seen from the right angle. Check out this beautiful sunset sky from the mountains of Costa Rica.

A giant floating sphere built from discarded umbrellas will next set sail on one of the country's most notorious Superfund sites: The Gowanus Canal.

In memory of his late wife, a farmer has spent 35 years planting and nurturing a guitar-shaped forest in Argentina.

These human nests are biomimicry at its best, built the way birds do with cozy comfort in mind.

These programs are designed for writers, visual artists and even musicians to take time off for inspiration.

Custom colors haven't always been as easy to come by as they are today. In the past they came from insects, mummies and heavy metals around the world.

Rabbit Island residency programs encourage artists to incorporate conservation, ecology and sustainability into their work.

Maybe a 'U.S. Dept. of Hummer' is the best path to ending dependence on foreign oil.

Electric vehicles, hybrids and plug-ins will be on the market by the end of the year. Here's a look into the crystal ball.

One of the world's most elusive particles will stay hidden a while longer, it seems. Scientists at the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator

Scientists have unveiled new evidence suggesting the 'God particle' really exists, a revelation that could change how we think about the universe.

Every decision in the design of a grocery store is made to make you buy more stuff.

From Michael Jordan to J.K. Rowling, these superstars prove the value of perseverance.

From confounding dress codes to exclusion from many events, the road to gold for women has had plenty of quirky twists.

Despite their unhealthy ingredients and piles of sugar, a candy bar could actually be a better choice than these energy and protein bars.