The last few months have seen a dramatic increase in excitement around Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. While not new, recent performance improvements and immense increases in the size ...

Stronger than plastic and tougher than glass, the resin-filled material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows and more. By Jude Coleman / Knowable Magazine Published Dec 14, ...

Wood that you can see through? It sounds like something that shouldn't exist, doesn't it? Well, scientists have already proven it can be done. And now they've developed a new kind of transparent wood ...

To make an image transparent in PowerPoint, you have to change the opacity of the image – and you can do it for the whole image or a part. Change the opacity of an image in PowerPoint When it comes ...

But despite much effort, transparent wood has not made it into commercial use—mostly because of the way it is made. The conventional method for making wood transparent involves using chemicals to ...

Excel offers two methods for creating a spreadsheet on top of an image. If you want your entire sheet to display a tiled image, add it as a background and your data will automatically appear on top of ...

A transparent cell phone would seem to have a few limitations. It could be hard to find, and others could easily see exactly what you are working on. The real power of a transparent phone, that which ...

In an effort to improve large touchscreens, LED light panels and window-mounted infrared solar cells, researchers have made plastic conductive while also making it more transparent. In an effort to ...

Wood is an ancient material humans have been using for millions of years, for the construction of housing, ships and as a source of fuel for burning. It’s also a renewable source, and one way to ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching ...