A plain bamboo stem goes through a mesmerizing transformation ... Say They've Solved the Mystery of a Curious 100-Year-Old Contraption Discovered in Storage Education Department places dozens ...

The scientists’ radiocarbon dating found these tools were as old as 39,000 years ... Rough and rugged plants such as palm and bamboo are stripped and their stems are turned into supple fibers ...

Or you could go cut a switch of bamboo and do a little cane-pole fishing ... Cut a straight piece of cane about 10 feet long. Trim the leaf stems as close as possible. Saw through the fat end ...

Bamboo is not wood, but a grass with no woody material in its stem. But we are seeing more and more use of this grass in cabinets and as a substitute or adjunct to "good old, solid wood." ...

“Tightly holding bamboo stems in order to crush them into bite sizes is perhaps the most crucial adaptation to consuming a prodigious quantity of bamboo,” said study author Xiaoming ...