Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Tom Mareschall carries a 2.5m-long tree trunk across the workshop, lays it down and then raises an axe above his head ...

With Hackaday’s new handmade category we have the option of covering a wide range of builds – everything from jet engines designed on paper and built on manual machines, to old-world crafts made with ...

Otzi carved his longbow from the wood of the yew tree intending to kill prey, and perhaps his enemies. He would never have dreamed that the same tree would one day yield a chemical that saves lives.