The morning email contained a rather calculated solicitation: a "Russian scientist" and a University of Iowa student had cooked up a fungus that translated into inexpensive cellulosic ...

Every fully stocked wood shop has a table saw. You can usually find a pile of sawdust under it, even if it’s only used occasionally. If a shop has a belt sander or band saw, there’s probably another ...

For the second year in a row the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs will be partnering with inmates at Westgate Correctional Facility to dye the sawdust used for the Bermuda Day Floats.

As we start drilling in the Arctic, we’re going to spill oil in a place where it’s extra hard to clean up. This sawdust could help, but there’s one catch: how you get rid of the sawdust. All of this ...

This is science at its best: When I was growing up, the only practical use for sawdust was to soak up vomit, but thanks to scientists at a Belgian university who developed a new chemical process, that ...

CASCO, Maine — As huge saws rip through logs at the Hancock Lumber sawmill, sawdust flies through the air and coats equipment, floors and rafters. Far from a nuisance, though, the sawdust is ...

Workers are using a milky white dye as they frantically try to trace the path of highly radioactive water gushing from a tsunami-damaged Japanese nuclear plant and leaking into the ocean. Over the ...