(Phys.org) —Researchers at Tsinghua University in China are reporting that a subset of bamboo strips donated to the university five years ago has been found to make up an ancient Chinese ...

Scientists in China have aligned fragments of bamboo with Chinese calligraphic writing on it to recreate a mathematical device used 2,300 years ago, making it the world’s oldest known decimal ...

Fans made of woven bamboo strips from Sichuan Province were invented by the Gong family, thus named Gong Fans. With a history of over a century, the craftsmanship has been passed down to the ...

New self-reinforcing strategy achieves 942 MPa tensile strength—3.5 times stronger than natural bamboo—using only bamboo's own cellulose, eliminating need for synthetic adhesives Bamboo has long been ...

Ma Jilin, an inheritor of Ma's bamboo strip knitting, works at his shop in Xinshi Township of Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 4, 2019. Ma Jilin, 74, is an inheritor of Ma's bamboo ...