Nobody makes buildings out of wood anymore. Why? Because wood isn't especially strong (relative to steel), it involves cutting down trees, it burns readily, and creepy crawly things live and/or feast on it. Despite these horrible shortcomings, brave architects are now planning to build a 30-story wooden skyscraper in Vancouver.

While scientists are busy developing new ways to power our cars like solar, and hydrogen, a bunch of backyard tinkerers in Europe have cast their minds back to World War II, when extreme fuel shortages also forced people to find...

20 year old Chinese farmer Wu Zhongyuan built himself a helicopter using only — according to the man — what he remembers of middle school physics lessons and "relevant knowledge [found while] surfing the Internet via my mobile phone." Well,...

Fast-growing bamboo seems to be the current material of choice for many green-thinking designs, so it was just a matter of time before someone came up with a bamboo bike frame. While I don't think the world's landfills are getting...