There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that ...

Energy harvesting often appears as an attractive “something for (almost) nothing” proposition. Using wood for harvesting seems like an especially virtuous undertaking, as wood is available, ubiquitous ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have chemically modified wood and made it more compressible, turning it into a mini- generator. When compressed, it generates an electrical voltage. Such wood could ...

New research from N.C. State suggests harvesting wood debris after logging doesn't have a major impact on small animal populations. Wood pellets made from scraps left behind after clear-cutting are ...

Although it may seem counterintuitive to even consider wood as having a functional role in electronics, researchers demonstrated that it’s possible to use extensively modified wood as the transducer ...

Lamenting summer’s end and apprehensive about the coming winter, the poet Charles Baudelaire wrote centuries ago in “Song of Autumn,” that “already I hear the dismal sound of firewood/falling with a ...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...