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Wooden cutting boards, prized for their knife-friendliness and natural beauty, face deterioration due to moisture cycles. This repeated wetting and drying causes fibre separation and cracking The timelessness of a solid wood cutting board set upon the countertop speaks for itself with its durability and gentleness towards expensive chef knives, not to mention that it…
First wooden satellite developed by Japan aims to reduce space debris and prevent it from re-entering Earth (Credit: Kyoto University) Wood has entered low Earth orbit in a form rarely seen before. In December 2024, five CubeSats were released from the International Space Station, including LignoSat, a small satellite built largely from magnolia timber. The…
This undated image provided by Katerina Harvati shows a 430,000 year old wooden tool from Greece that was possibly used for digging. (Katerina Harvati, Dimitris Michailidis via AP) Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found. The objects were recovered at the Marathousa…
Panaji: State govt sealed Cafe CO2, a bustling nightclub built on stilts on the cliff face at Vagator, after finding that the 250-seater venue was operating without permission from the directorate of fire and emergency services.The joint enforcement monitoring committee also decided to seal the nightclub over concerns of structural stability. The authorities found that…
