Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially treated type of timber could be tomorrow’s trendy building material. Today, scientists report a new kind of... Read more
UMD study shows natural microstructures in transparent wood key to lighting and insulation advantages Engineers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland demo... Read more
Researchers at the University of Maryland have made a block of linden wood transparent, which they say will be useful in fancy building materials and in light-based electronics systems. Mate... Read more
When it comes to indoor lighting, nothing beats the sun’s rays streaming in through windows. Soon, that natural light could be shining through walls, too. Scientists have developed transpare... Read more