Q: I’m trying to locate somebody who can appraise some lumber. My husband, Ray, had a woodworking hobby for years and made beautiful furniture, including our four-poster bed made of cherry and inlay.

On this day in tech history, English inventor Ralph Wedgwood received the first patent for carbon paper, which he created as part of a device to help the blind to write. His “stylographic manifold ...

Anyone who has written with a pencil may have unwittingly made a few traces of a promising new nanomaterial. Among the thick smears of graphite deposited when a pencil rubs along paper are probably ...

Researchers have used a recently discovered form of carbon to make sheets of super-stiff and super-strong paper that is only a few millionths of a metre thick. This paper could lead to the development ...