Imagine cutting a sheet of wood with nothing more than a utility knife. That's balsa for you. You may remember this ultralight-weight wood from model plane kits in childhood. Bring this material out ...

Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi-transparent woods by pulling out the lignin and hemicellulose using a ...

Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi-transparent woods by pulling out the lignin and hemicellulose using a ...

By December 1924, it was ready for testing as a glider ... built of lightweight balsa wood, and a pusher propeller was mounted on the rear of the short, two-seater fuselage.

We made the "world's lightest bat" with carbon fiber and balsa wood bat for guaranteed homeruns. Trump announces plan to purchase icebreaker vessels from Finland 12 Things That Should Never Go in ...

After testing various wood types, Schwarze found balsa wood to be able to hold on to its stiffness and compressive strength after being exposed to the fungus. Through spectroscopy, a scientific ...

His nine-day voyage, in a plane designed by his brother that resembled a child’s glider but had wings longer than a Boeing 727’s, made aviation history. By Trip Gabriel Dick Rutan, who in 1986 ...

The fuselage clearly is a rag-and-tube structure and seems like it is tied more closely to aviation’s golden age than modern times. The outlines of frame members show through the covering.

For years, balsa wood has been a key component in the giant rotor blades on the top of wind turbines. Most of it comes from the rain forests of South America and, in particular, from Ecuador.

While dry wood is an excellent insulator, it can generate small amounts of current when wet. Garemark’s specially engineered pieces of balsa wood produced 10 times as much electricity as natural ...

On the Via a Loreto, Indigenous Kichwa people are focusing on cultivating balsa trees used for a material ... “They launder it, that is, they extract wood from protected areas where they do ...