Standard glass windows like these could one day be replaced by wood Transparent wood just got even better, moving us a step closer to windows that are far better insulators than traditional glass ...

Transparent is not usually one of them, but researchers have now developed a method to make semi-transparent wood a reality, and it could have interesting applications in the future.

Transparent wood, made by stripping organic polymers and replacing them with a mixture of egg whites and rice extract, could be used as windows and smartphone screens. advertisement.