The Sycamore Youth Center has announced registration is open for after-school classes for the winter and spring semester. Classes run from Jan. 26 through May 1, with courses offered to students in ...

Art can come in a variety of different mediums, but it’s usually the nonconformists that deliver the most unique and moving ...

LONDON – In the dark, chilly winter months, it’s not unusual to walk down one of London’s more affluent residential streets and notice the smell of wood smoke. Bittersweet and pungent, the odour ...

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in ...

In 50 years, my father-in-law has never run out of wood. Since building a wood-heated cabin in Maine in the early 1970s, he has started each summer collecting balsam, birch and maples that fell or ...

Best time of year to clean a chimney pipe Best tools for brushing down a chimney or wood stove pipe and clean up Yearly maintenance tips, including how to replace fireproof gaskets in and around your ...

The annual brickmaking process covers many months, culminating in October and November with the building of a kiln — a new ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

You settle in for a cozy fire in the living room when you notice an awful smell coming from the fire. At first, you think it's just something on the wood and decide to let it go. Surely it will ...

3D printers are built for additive manufacturing. However, at heart, they are really just simple CNC motion platforms, and can be readily repurposed to other tasks. As [Arseniy] demonstrates, it’s not ...

Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...