There’s a reason humans have been building homes from wood for 10,000 years. It’s an excellent building material—durable, renewable, good at insulating. But since it’s opaque, we’re ...

A transparent wood material claimed to be suitable for mass production could replace windows and solar panels in the future, say researchers at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

The transparent wood is 50% stronger than previous transparent wood and could even be used to build load-bearing walls in a building. It could also potentially be used in other ways, such as ...

So, they used their transparent wood to replace a glass window in a birdhouse. Under a heat lamp, the interior stayed nine to 11 degrees cooler than when it had a glass window.

And with the resin added, transparent wood outperforms plastic and glass: ... Transparent wood is a far better insulator than glass, so it could help buildings retain heat or keep it out.

One way to reduce that refuse is by recycling wood. Almost everybody is familiar with recycling paper, aluminum, and glass, but far fewer people are aware that wood from buildings can also be salvaged ...

The first three stories of the 112-foot-high building are clad in silver and orange panels that frame glass windows. The rest of the building is open-air, with each floor containing four "rocking ...