Just a few months ago, a tow-truck, itself, couldn't pry my rubber spatulas out of my hands. I swore by them for both baking and cooking. These caught me by surprise pretty swiftly. I bought them on a ...

There have been many times over the past year when 96-year-old Hilda Pannell has come close to giving up in her fight to get a handrail fitted outside her home. But after months of countless ...

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Joe Morales is a trained chef and senior editor focusing on kitchen products, product reviews, food and drink, and travel. If you’ve read the news about the dangers of black plastic, you might be ...

Achieve perfect, precise dowel joints every time with this self-centering doweling jig. Designed for accuracy and ease, this simple yet highly effective tool ensures that dowels align perfectly in ...

Thermal modification is a wood treatment process involving exposure to high temperatures in kilns, reducing moisture content to nearly 0%. This eliminates bonding water and free water within wood ...

GANTANGQING, CHINA—Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely survive in the archaeological record. However, according to ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

Crafted mostly from coniferous trees, 70 percent of the tools were made from pine wood. (Representational image)Roberto Machado Noa/Gettyimages Researchers in China have unearthed the oldest complex ...

The earliest tools used by humans were made of stone, followed by bronze, then iron, and finally steel. But was there a “Wood Age”? This question has been difficult to answer as wood decomposes easily ...