Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

Wood that you can see through? It sounds like something that shouldn't exist, doesn't it? Well, scientists have already proven it can be done. And now they've developed a new kind of transparent wood ...

Researchers are working on creating transparent wood that would be a viable alternative to glass and plastic. Tests have shown that transparent wood is three times stronger than Plexiglass and 10 ...

Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to ...

In design theory, extensive use of Glass is often avoided on south-facing facades in the Northern Hemisphere (or north-facing facades in the Southern Hemisphere) due to the risk of heat gain caused by ...