Harnessing the sun’s warmth to heat water is an approach fading in popularity in many places where solar power is already used, but it still makes sense for especially sunny places like Spain. Because ...

Q. Slate was used in the house I grew up in. The slate tile seemed to be a random mix of squares and rectangles. I'd like to install this material in my own home. Is that a job a beginner can tackle ...

The craze for fashionable restaurants to serve food on anything but ordinary crockery infuriates diners and critics alike. But the trend for using slate to showcase dishes is now causing a shortage of ...