Buzzing wasps, small holes, and wood shavings around your garden furniture? There's one thing that might be making your ...

Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

A technique used for the long-term preservation of human and animal remains is now being tested on one of Canada's most ...

Increasing the surface area of the joint enhances its strength. You can do this by adding biscuits, dominoes or splines ...

There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that ...

Researchers in China have developed a new way to make life-like artificial wood on a large scale from a polymer called resol, which is very similar to lignin (the compound found in natural wood). The ...