World’s first wooden satellite is set for launch. Here’s why this is a pretty big deal
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Tag: wood
Archaeologists discover half a million-year-old wooden structure — and it’s not built by Homo sapiens
It predates rise of modern humans and could have formed a platform
Wood may not be the climate-friendly building material we used to think
Study shows logging has a higher carbon footprint than expected.
Wooden shipwrecks create new micro-ecosystems for deep-sea microbes
One man's shipwreck is another microbe's treasure.
New eco-friendly coating could make wood and clothes resistant to fire
The coating could be applied to a number of different materials, including 3D-printed parts and textiles.
Off-cuts of wood show Vikings were settled in America one thousand years ago
Merry millenniversary!
Citrus fruit stands poised to make transparent wood more sustainable, stronger, and more transparent
This is a whole new level of 'when life gives you lemons'.
Researchers find a way to grow wood in a lab, and it could curb global deforestation
Your future furniture might be produced with lab-grown wood
Wooden buildings could help stabilize the climate
It all depends on where we get the timber, though.
Researchers map the molecular structure of wood in bid to make it more resilient
"If we can increase the strength of wood, we may start seeing more major constructions moving away from steel and ...
Synthetic wood is fire and water resistant
It's also as crush-resistant as natural wood.
Novel nanocomposite material might prevent shipwrecks from rotting
The technique is being trialed on the English warship Mary Rose.
Tokyo announces plan to build 350-meter skyscraper made from wood
A breathtaking, wood-based skyscraper.
Strong as steel and lightweight? Must be superdense wood
Wooden't you try this building material?
The world’s tallest timber building opens in Canada – ahead of schedule
The towering Brock Commons is the world's biggest structure made from wood.
GeoPicture of the Week: Petrified Wood
Just like a number of creatures, wood can fossilize too.
This transparent wood is stronger than glass
Using a chemical technique, researchers removed the complex organic polymers that give wood its characteristic appearance and, in the process, ...
KTH researchers develop transparent wood for use in building and solar panels
Wood, one of the cheapest and most widely used construction materials humanity has ever employed, has just had its range ...
Skyscrapers made out of wood: a feeble idea or a mark of the future?
(c) Green Up until the mind XIXth century most homes and buildings were made out of wood, a readily available ...