But a new hydrogel developed by researchers in China may offer a much safer option for eradicating harmful microbes and acids in waterlogged shipwreck wood. The novel material, detailed in a study ...

Researchers tested their creation on 800-year-old wood from the Nanhai One, a shipwreck discovered off China’s south coast. They applied hydrogels with varying silver nitrate concentrations to ...

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Researchers have developed a material that may help better preserve soggy wood from historic shipwrecks, according to a recent analysis. The research, published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry ...

The wooden vessel was constructed around 2,500 years ago using the “on the shell” technique, which involved connecting planks with dovetail joints. Little else is known about the ship ...

Watch what happens when a man in Brazil attempts to load a large pickup truck into a boat using nothing more than two flimsy planks of wood. Cars get loaded onto ships every single day of every ...

Over the next 12 hours, they found two men at sea in two separate life rafts, and three more clinging to a plank of wood, according to local media. The fate of the rest of the crew and the ship ...

As a proof of concept, the team applied hydrogels with different silver concentrations to 800-year-old wood from the Nanhai One shipwreck, discovered off the southern coast of China. After 10 days ...