A skilled craftsman is wowing customers by carving intricate items and works of art out of lumps of wood despite being blind - using his senses of touch and smell. Chris Fisher, 52, is the United ...

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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) provides vision and clarity into manufacturing, sorting, warehousing and shipping of products. Wood product manufacturers struggle with tracking components and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Wood anatomist José Arlete Camargos identifying cedar wood log in Acre, Brazil. Photo credit: Project NIRS ID. A team of scientists at the ...

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 ...

A. Beetles are indeed a serious problem, mainly because they spend most of their life tunneling inside the wood, making the wood very weak. Of course, the holes they make to the outside are not very ...

Before you prosecute thieves, you have to know what they stole. It's the same for crimes against nature. The world's only lab dedicated solely to wildlife forensics is in southern Oregon. The lab ...

Before you prosecute thieves, you have to know what they stole. It's the same for crimes against nature. The world's only lab dedicated solely to wildlife forensics is in southern Oregon. The lab ...