Space Research Gets Heavy

With the arrival of warm weather, outdoor dining becomes a delightful and practical option for meals with family and friends. To make the most of your outdoor space and create the ultimate outdoor dining experience, consider these tips for setting up a beautiful, functional, and inviting area.

When it comes to interior design, contrast is often used for visual appeal, whether it is a mix of textures, colors, or shapes. One of the sharpest styles showcasing contrast—and most enduring—is the use of black and white design.

As NASA plans missions to the Moon and Mars, a key factor is figuring out how to feed crew members during their weeks, months, and even years in space.

Garden for long enough and you eventually come to the inevitable realisation that for several perfectly good reasons it’s not that easy to create a memorably good winter pot display. Why not? First and foremost is the fact that unlike its summer equivalent (a completely different creature) you can’t simply stuff a winter container full of lots of frothy annuals, heat-loving, dramatic foliage plants, gauzy grasses, and showy, frost-tender perennials and then hope for the best. Instead the planting must be chosen to be resilient in the face of cold winter winds, heavy rain and frost, as well as tolerant of short days and low light levels, while somehow still being decorative enough to justify its prime position for up to six months. It’s quite the ask.

According to the China Global Television Network, the vegetable cultivation experiment carried out by Chinese astronauts during the Shenzhou-16 mission to the Tiangong space station has yielded a good harvest, verifying the reliability of its plant growth technology in space.

Each new year brings with it plenty of design trends to get excited about—and if you're longing to incorporate a new look into your space without giving it a complete overhaul, you'll want to keep reading.

Header image: UK astronauts Rosemary Coogan, John McFall and Meganne Christian. Image credit: UK Space Agency

Certainly, bathrooms can be a common place for small bugs to appear due to moisture and warmth. Here’s a list ofCommon Small Tiny Bugs in the Bathroom and How to Get Rid of Them with easy and effective solutions.

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Reblooming Christmas cactus is much easier than you may think, and in this post I’m going to explain how to encourage yours to flower again year after year.

If you’ve found yourself stumped on how to style that lonely corner in your dining room or make use of the empty space under your stairs, you’re not alone. In fact, interior designers have a whole slew of tricks for dealing with these spaces that are not living up to their potential.

Trailing plants are all about how you display them, which makes them stand out with their cascading stems and leaves. These Pothos Ladder Ideas will help you achieve just that!