Researchers at the University of British Columbia leveraged an unusual discovery into ultra-black material made from wood. The deep, dark black is not the result of any sort of dye or surface ...

Offsetting the black exterior, the interior is enveloped in pale, almost white-stained wood. Smooth, exposed concrete floors ... stained plywood panels of differing sizes, installed in vertical strips ...

The fungus, also known as "shotgun" fungus, thrives on moist, rotting wood mulch, and forcibly ejects tiny black spores that look like specks of tar toward light-colored surfaces, including siding ...