We help a reader track down furniture from a photograph taken in the early 1950s. By Tom Delavan From Connecticut to Cairo, reading spots that will seem like paradise to book- and design-lovers alike.

The city’s towering challenges include an abandoned skyscraper covered in graffiti. At David Kordansky Gallery, it inspires a tower of its own. By Jonathan Griffin and Carlos Jaramillo The institution ...

Protein design (or protein engineering) is a technique by which proteins with enhanced or novel functional properties are created. Proteins can be engineered by rational design, which typically uses ...