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 ...

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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 ...