After thousands of conversations with homeowners in our Ask A Cabinetmaker community, one issue shows up more consistently than any other: misaligned expectations, almost always around finishes. After ...

Kristen Finch, a lab technician at the US Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory, is using the Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-TOFMS) machine to determine the full ...

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 new technique has been developed to tackle illegal logging by pinpointing the wood's origin to a smaller area than ever before (<100 km). Using chemical fingerprinting techniques (DART-TOFMS), they ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been using different techniques to increase the strength of natural wood, but in a recent groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of ...

There is a brand new sliding microtome at the Department of Forest Sciences. Microtomes are used for making thin wood sample slices (typically 20-40 microns thick) that can be then analysed under the ...