The story of American women can be told through paper dolls. From the Victorian wedding costumes favored by brides of the late 1880s to the belted pantsuits of the 1970s, paper dolls trace the history ...

Our next guest has been on our show many times as a disability and mental health advocate. Her mission continues now through ...

Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled gowns they ...

The precocious, supernaturally gifted Eleven from Netflix’s Stranger Things will probably be a popular Halloween costume choice this year. There are many ways to dress up like the tween with ...

A new twist on lightweight organic materials shows promise for artificial-muscle applications. Chinese scientists spiked a crystalline organic material with a polymer to make it more flexible. They ...

Researchers have given a foil 'paper doll' the ability to move and do sit-ups with a new material called polymer covalent organic frameworks (polyCOFs). Scary movies about dolls that can move, like ...