Explore how waru wood, known for its soft fibers, is skillfully shaved into 2x4 battens for use in creating goat pen frames. Waru wood, with its natural softness and workability, offers the ideal ...

The findings shed light on the ancient people who lived in western Hungary, whose identity continues to confound scholars.

An 18th-century Austrian monk who died of tuberculosis was mummified in an extremely unusual way.

Researchers have figured out how to make wood much stronger by injecting it with iron minerals found in soil. This discovery, while still experimental, might eventually transform how we build ...

Were Greece's Neolithic Dimini people responsible for the violent conquest of the Sesklo people, or did the two communities coexist?

The Boulder City Council last week gave initial approval to new home hardening rules aimed at reducing wildfire risk in the city’s most vulnerable areas by prohibiting flammable materials on ... hot ...

What if wood became a high-tech material? Researchers have developed a semi-transparent version, combining strength and ...

Some believe it could be the remains of an ancient water ... of a palace, the materials and design resemble more modest royal buildings, such as the Inwa Varkara Wooden Monastery or the Shwenandaw ...

Nature has developed some impressive building materials that can often go toe-to-toe with the best human-made ones. Wood, coral, and bone have excellent strength-to-weight ratios, and they form at ...

How can fungi be used as building construction materials? This is what a recent study published in Cell Reports Physical Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how engineered ...

The ancient city—in what is ... segment of it was reconstructed using only materials that would have been available to the Hittites, including wood, rock, and 3,000 tons of mud brick.

From the Japanese cypress to the ponderosa pine, wood has been used in construction for millennia. Though materials like steel and concrete have largely taken over large building construction ...