High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of ...

Dear Cecil: I thought I was smart and all until my son asked me, “Why doesn’t wood melt?” —Murli The simple answer is that wood doesn’t melt because it burns first. If that seems a little like giving ...

(via SciShow) Can you melt wood? Most of the time, the answer is no. But as with many things in science, under the right circumstances, it might just be possible.

In a remarkable discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a 1,500-year-old wooden reindeer trap, along with other ancient ...