Wooden toys have earned something of a lopsided reputation. Conventional wisdom holds that adults adore them for their timeless appeal, but children, if given a choice, will gravitate to the plastic ...

When the first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1885 — a modest ten storeys — people were afraid to walk under the steel-framed building, fearing it would collapse. Today, as towers made of wood go ...

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden celebrates 4x100m gold at the 2025 World Championships Julian Finney/Getty Images Melissa Jefferson-Wooden had more than a breakout year in 2025. She ran her way into the ...

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden came into the World Track and Field Championships with one career individual global medal, a bronze in the 100m at the 2024 Olympics. She will leave it with two individual ...

Last Oct. 12, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden boarded a float, wearing her Olympic 100m bronze medal and 4x100m relay gold medal, for a parade down Front Street. So often growing up, she gathered there for ...

Wood Group has agreed to a takeover from the United Arab Emirates’ Sidara for £216 million ($291.8 million), it announced on Friday in a deal that the Aberdeen-based contractor says will help solve ...

GREEN BAY – When Colby Wooden turned pro in 2023, the Packers defensive lineman told his mother, Nicole, that he'd eventually return to school and finish his college degree. Now two full years into ...

A European city is setting new standards in sustainable urban development with the construction of the world's largest wooden city, covering 2.7 million square feet, in Stockholm, Sweden. The ...

A research team led by the University of the Basque Country (EHU), together with Wuhan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), was inspired by naturally occurring processes that give ...

Archaeologists have discovered 35 wooden tools from the Old Stone Age in China which they say show impressive craftsmanship, advanced cognitive skills and offer new insights into what ancient humans ...

Maryland-based InventWood is doing just what its name implies: inventing a new type of wood. The new building material consists of wood and a high-tech process involving heat, pressure, and food ...