Despite its huge environmental benefits, cob is an extremely niche construction material. As part of our Building with Cob series, architecture editor Lizzie Crook explores what it would take to ...

Choose corn ears with fresh%2C green husks and sticky yellowish-brown silk. Pick the plumpest ears and peek inside the husk to check for worms or brown spots. Corn begins converting its natural sugars ...

There is much more to see other than Siberian tigers and ice sculptures in northern China this winter. A farmer used 30,000 corn cobs to build a traditional village house in Erhe, Shulan county at ...