Named Incadendron esseri (literally “Esser’s tree of the Inca”), the tree is a newly-identified genus and species commonly found along an ancient Inca path in Peru, the…

When people draw trees, they usually show a trunk, branches and leaves – leaving the roots out of the picture. Similarly, when estimating forest carbon storage, the roots are often not counte…

Scientists from Newcastle University have learned how to ‘fingerprint’ paper and inexpensively authenticate items such as bank notes, passports and legal documents just by taking a pictu…

Traditional nails are wonderful things:  a cheap mass-produced commodity that contributed to the development of the housing industry and, well, hold a lot of things together. But they are a…

The next generation of bridges in country roads could be made of glulam – structural timber made of layers of wood strips bonded with glue. Researchers from the J. Lohr Structures Lab in the USA…

Pee is mostly water, with the rest of it wastes expelled from the body. One of those wastes is excess phosphorus and another is excess nitrogen, which exists mostly in the form of a chemical know…

Picture a bowl of unpurified water sitting in a sunny spot. On top of it floats a small block of wood about five centimetres by five centimetres. The side of the block facing up is darkened, to cat…

Growers of spotted gum and yellow stringybark could potentially increase income from small-diameter plantation thinnings by creating “boxed-heart” posts, according to a trial supporte…