Bamboo Engineering

MIT scientists, along with architects and wood processors from England and Canada, are looking for ways to turn bamboo into a construction material more akin to wood composites, like plywood.
(Learn more: http://bit.ly/WCNN7e)

Such bamboo products are currently being developed by several companies; the MIT project intends to gain a better understanding of these materials, so that bamboo can be more effectively used.

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News

Additional footage courtesy of MyBoringChannel and Frank Ross 

(http://myboringchannel.com/)

Music sampled from: Radio Silence 

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Schemawound/TRANCOUNT/03_Radio_Silence)

Artist/Composer: Schemawound 

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ORIGINAL: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)