Paper is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, but how is it made, and where did it originate? Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word "paper ...

Conventional breeding of trees takes time, but CRISPR gene editing should help speed things up. Now, scientists at North Carolina State University have used CRISPR to adjust the genomes of poplar ...

Barrangou and his colleagues used a predictive machine learning model to identify genes in poplar trees (Populus trichocarpa) that they could modify to create ideal traits for fiber productions, ...

Is it possible to make paper without trees? Australian entrepreneurs Kevin Garcia and Jon Tse were determined to find out. They spent a year researching a possible alternative that could serve as a ...

Processing wood into paper requires a lot of water, energy, and chemicals. Creapaper mixes in grass, reducing the need for trees—and all the resources necessary to process them. As the backlash ...

The history of paper, much like the history of humanity itself that it would go on to chronicle, was an evolutionary process. Writing systems evolved first on clay tablets before ancient Egyptians ...