Covering everything from luxury homes to housing trends ... developed a way to chemically treat wood so that it not only becomes opaque—even completely transparent at times—but also stores ...

Soon, that natural light could be shining through walls, too. Scientists have developed transparent wood that could be used in building materials and could help home and building owners save money ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland have turned ordinary sheets of wood into transparent ... an entire house could be made transparent. It is not clear why anyone would want to live in ...

A few months ago, we looked at the work of material scientists who had managed to make a block of linden wood see-through. Altering the molecular makeup to turn timber transparent is an impressive ...

Glass windows can transmit light, helping to brighten and heat homes, but they don't store energy for use when the sun goes down. To create the optically transparent wood, the researchers first ...

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 ...

“The transparent wood is lighter and stronger than glass. It could be used for load-bearing windows and roofs,” says Hu. “It can be potentially used to make a see-through house.” Receive a ...

The humble wood frame house doesn’t always get as much love as the iconic brownstone in Brooklyn, but that’s starting to change as preservation-minded owners restore them across the borough. Examples ...