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Ask an Expert: Why Is There a Lumber Shortage?

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has experienced shortages of medical materials, manufacturing produc

The Cultish, Sometimes Scary Studio of Artist Tom Sachs

In February, an anonymous “Art World Family” posted a job listing for an executive personal assistant on the New York Fo

See How a Grand Prairie Company Builds Its Prefabricated Houses in a Factory

HiFab’s Grand Prairie headquarters sounds like a construction site. A forklift beep-beep-beeps. A worker cuts through wo

News round

HS2 recycled steel supporting jobs; Staff issues for Berwickshire collections; Walking stick recycling scheme; Woman’s d

Hekotek to supply new log sorting line to Versowood in Finland

Machinery Image: Hekotek Hekotek AS has signed a contract for the supply of a log sorting line to Versowood Oy in Finlan

Amsterdam's train tunnels reveal surprising windows into the past

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free he

Filipino fishermen in the UK live lives of peril and loneliness

The struggling UK fishing industry has come to rely on low-paid workers employed through a little-understood immigration

At Sandy Hook, Crime

The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable. This is what they saw at Sandy

3D Printering: Can You Ever Have Enough Vitamins?

As a community we owe perhaps more than we realise to the RepRap project. From it we get not only a set of open-source p

Rivian Sets Up at New York City’s High Line

From iconic vehicle design to a reinvented customer experience Rivian’s senior director of facilities design, Denise Che

Wood

Machinery Image: Wood-Mizer Wood-Mizer is gearing up to present its latest sawmills and woodworking machines at LIGNA to

Why it’s best to replace, not repair, damaged composite deck boards

Q: Our deck was installed in 2007 with EverGrain composite. (We chose the redwood color.) One of the planks is deteriora