Researchers said the identification of wood in the 400-million-year-old samples was "unexpected" A study of fossilised plant samples has shown that woody plants probably first appeared about 10 ...

Colubrina arborescens, or wild coffee, is an evergreen in Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, Hawaii and the West Indies. Stanley Yankowski Cornus controversa, or giant dogwood, is native to China, the ...

From providing forensic wooden “fingerprints” to insights on structural engineering, the museum’s collection of rare and wonderful lumber is a prized scientific resource Erin Wunderlich At the ...

When you walk through a furniture store, the wood around you seems ordinary. Floorboards gleam under bright lights. Tables and cabinets are labeled with familiar names of wood, such as oak, rosewood ...

Detailed information about the expansive contents of ESF's wood collection – 40,000 samples that represent 100 years of gathering wood from around the globe – will soon be made available to scientists ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been using different techniques to increase the strength of natural wood, but in a recent groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of ...

A study of fossilised plant samples has shown that woody plants probably first appeared about 10 million years earlier than previously thought. The 400-million-year-old samples revealed rings of cells ...