Q. We are making hickory dowels and have two questions: Why are some dowels more pink in color and why are some apparently weaker than others. The last thing we need is a broken chair rung or even a ...

With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost process ...

Wood, long admired for its natural beauty and strength, has now inspired a carbon material tough enough to rival steel. Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that biochar derived ...