Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength and lightweight composition, two properties that make it ideal for building model structures and airplanes. Researchers from the US and China have ...

While most models we can currently build are not as efficient ... This allowed the tiny balsa dinosaur to really take off, flying long enough to have some very close encounters with buildings ...

The Architecture of Paul Rudolph at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the first major retrospective exhibition of ...

Still, Waltham's choice of balsa wood might seem unlikely, known as it is for the making of model aircraft rather than musical instruments. It is actually not the first time that balsa wood has ...

More commonly known as the balsa tree, Ochroma is found in many Latin American countries and is the source of the lightweight wood used to make snap-together model dinosaurs, Popsicle sticks ...

Saint Louis University’s Building Engineering Awareness in Metro Saint Louis Schools Competition — or Billiken BEAMS — is a group-based project opportunity in which students compete in teams to design ...

balsa wood, cardboard and rubber. This machine can cut at an accuracy of ±0.01 in (0.254 mm). With these materials students and researchers have made parts for drones, ribs for a model airplane wing ...

Even though the base C6 model was already highly regarded by both enthusiasts ... Further weight-saving measures include balsa wood/carbon fiber composite floors and a magnesium alloy engine cradle.

Martin builds dioramas with model cars that appear to be racing ... So, Martin got to work using balsa wood for tree trunks ...

The small town of Sweetwater, in Nolan County, Texas, sits north of three of the world’s largest onshore wind farms. Some ...

The Z06 trim level returned to the Chevy Corvette for the 2006 model year after a hiatus with ... and the floor was a sandwich of carbon fiber and balsa wood. The battery was moved to the cargo ...