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 ...

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 ...

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 ...