Choosing the best firewood to burn in your home fireplace comes down to wood type and factors like its heat output, its dryness, its source, and, of course, cost. When you see signs for firewood for ...

Each wood type has an ideal use based on qualities like grain pattern, color, and how well it takes stain or paint. Maple is an inexpensive hardwood that can be stained to mimic more expensive types ...

A BBQ chef prepares a delicious brisket - Joel Villanueva/Getty Images Smoking a brisket the correct way yields top tier results, but a lot of that has to do with the type of wood you choose. Wood ...

For as long as scientists have studied trees, we have categorised them into two types based on the sort of wood they make. Softwoods include pines and firs and generally grow faster than hardwoods, ...

I created a clock using four types of wood: walnut, bubinga, oak and wenge. Every piece was cut and arranged by hand, forming ...

An entirely new type of wood that does not fit into either category of hardwood or softwood has been discovered by researchers who were undertaking an evolutionary survey of the microscopic structure ...