A sheet of transparent new material at a University of Maryland lab looks like it might be plastic. But it’s actually wood—and it could eventually be used to make energy-efficient windows or even ...

Creating transparent wood is primarily initiated through soaking its entire body to a chemical compound used in making toothpaste and bleach, the sodium chlorite.The compound will get rid of lignin, ...

Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to ...

See-through wood has a number of interesting properties that researchers hope to exploit. WILEY‐VCH VERLAG GMBH & CO. KGAA, WEINHEIM / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a ...

This window has seen better days, but it’s not ready for the landfill yet. It would take only minimal skills to fix. (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective by Tim Carter A fellow amateur radio operator sent me ...

Carminati Serramenti manufactures wooden frames, wood aluminum, and wood glass. Windows and doors from Carminati Serramenti were used in Villa Ostuni, a modern-looking house in Ostuni, Italy. Villa ...