Can you imagine a smartphone with a wooden touchscreen? Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not—unless you've heard of ...

Researchers have found a way to make transparent wood that doesn't rely on plastics, and it could be scaled up to work in ...

Scientist have invented a new type of transparent wood that could one day replace harmful plastics in several applications.

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Baruah, a woodworking hobbyist, recently wondered if his pastime’s principal material could serve as a viable glass ...

Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got onto the buzz about “transparent aluminum” as a result of a Tweet from ...

The Hosono TEAM project explored “today’s stone tools” involving new active properties based on excited electrons in transparent materials as well as novel electronic-active materials. Transparent ...

Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not -- unless you've heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood's natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly ...