Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do people make paper out of trees, and why not use something else? – Cooper H., age 6, St. Louis, Missouri Paper is an ...

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 ...

The next time you grab a sheet of paper to do your homework, remember that the product you're writing on was once a tree. Most kids know this, but what you may not know is how a tree is turned into ...

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 ...

Carol Kratz (left) of La Crosse, Wis., gets a lesson in how to tie a knot using a strip of mulberry tree fibers from Nana Takano, a second-year student at the Center for the Book, as volunteers for ...

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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 ...