From sneaker sketches in his high school notebooks to Nike’s global Air Works experiment, this designer is using 3D printing and Beijing street culture to imagine an Air Max built for creators, not ...

From precision joinery and track-saw cuts to cordless nailing, demolition, and detailing, these new power tools impressed us with their performance, control, and design.

Keys are an invention so ancient that we don’t even think of them as a technology. The earliest lock-and-key mechanisms date back to ancient Egyptian times, with the ancient Romans introducing metal ...

A stairway goes up to nowhere in a woodshop. No grand foyer at the bottom, no upper floor waiting at the top—just a full-scale helical structure surrounded by tools, machinery, and carefully prepared ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nails and screws are a quick way to fix two pieces of wood together, but if you want something that looks good and offers tremendous strength, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Woodworking can be a fun and practical hobby to learn. However, it can also be expensive to start, and if you're limited by poor quality tools ...

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How to beat the United States in gene editing? A research team from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences had struggled with this question for three years, with no results. Then they ...

In this short clip I’m testing out a hollow chisel mortiser on a piece of oak. You’ll see the bit plunge in and quickly carve a clean, deep mortise while the chips pile up. I’m still getting familiar ...

The Lchashen wagon features a complex mortise-and-tenon construction with bronze fittings that join at least 70 components, while its canopy frame alone required hundreds of precisely mortised holes.

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In this short video I show how I cut a clean mortise entirely by hand using a chisel and wooden mallet. You can follow each careful strike as the waste chips curl out of the joint and the walls become ...