While you might think a coconut shell is best used to hold a cool drink, you can also use it to make beautiful carvings! Coconut carvings are incredibly popular in certain parts of the world, like China and India, and you can use this traditional practice to make lovely decorative pieces. While there are lots of things you can make from a coconut shell, the easiest is a bowl, so we’ll walk you through that process.
Scientists have already figured out how to grow meat in a lab, nurturing animal cells to multiply into chicken cutlets and burger patties. Now, MIT researchers are hoping to do the same with wood, to quickly produce in a lab what would take decades to grow in nature. From there, they could even coax wood tissue to grow into fully-formed shapes—like, say, a table—in order to mitigate the environmental harm of the logging and construction industries.
