Stronger than plastic and tougher than glass, the resin-filled material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows and more. By Jude Coleman / Knowable Magazine Published Dec 14, ...

A few years ago I tried making transparent wood and it kind of worked. The pieces that I made were somewhat okay, but I was ...

It sounds like something ripped out of a science fiction movie: a metal that's as strong as aluminum but completely transparent. And yet, transparent metal is very real and could soon appear in ...

Excel offers two methods for creating a spreadsheet on top of an image. If you want your entire sheet to display a tiled image, add it as a background and your data will automatically appear on top of ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching ...

Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to ...