WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists often have to make sacrifices for their work. Physicist Dominic Vella chopped his bathroom rug into strips, and L. Mahadevan’s coauthor ran off with his bookshelf. With ...

You’ve finally found the perfect area rug. You get it home, lay it in place and step back to admire its beauty. But something looks off. The edges are curling up and the rug just won’t lay flat. “New ...

Work done in the name of science is earnest, educational, and occasionally downright dumb. A paper published in the current issue of Physical Review Letters describes research done on the author's ...

Dear Heloise: We recently purchased a 6-by-9-foot rug and pad online. The rug showed up folded tightly inside a small box! We put it on the floor, and after a week, there was no change -- the wrinkles ...

DEAR HELOISE: We recently purchased a 6-by-9-foot rug and pad online. The rug showed up folded tightly inside a small box! We put it on the floor, and after a week, there was no change -- the wrinkles ...

Small changes can have maximum impact, and few decor pieces have a better effort-to-wow-factor ratio than a large and beautiful rug. I should add a caveat, though: You'll have a better chance at low ...