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 ...

But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — because it loves to eat the wood-boring beetles that flock to large dead and moribund trees, responding to insect outbreaks ...

As someone with a dark wood dining table, I'm drawn to table decorations that add a bit of color, texture, or both ... cutlery rests in mixed stone: black onyx, pink rhodonite, onyx, leopardite ...