Heat treatment processes have been used on wood for more than a century and have become a common way of elevating properties such as durability. These processes take place in heated environments ...

Three years ago, we heard how scientists from Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology had created transparent wood – it could serve as a cheaper alternative to the silica-based glass currently used ...

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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 ...

If you have a wood stove or a fireplace for back-up heat, or as your main heat source, you’ve probably already thought to tune it up for winter. But cleaning your chimney and hearth and using ...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire in your wood-burning fireplace are wonderful until your heating bill arrives. Then you discover heat from your furnace goes up the chimney along with heat from the ...

Anyone who heats with a wood stove knows that the experience is completely different from typical central heating. It’s not for everyone, though, and it’s certainly not without its trade-offs. One of ...