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 ...

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 ...

Reclaimed slate tiles applied like shingles to the exterior of this single-room cabin in Wales' Snowdonia region contrast with an interior made entirely from light birch plywood. Slate Cabin was ...