Balsa wood is prized by turbine blade makers for being both strong ... The inside of their blades are made of wood. That’s ...

Now, researchers in materials science and nanoengineering at Rice have developed an additive-free, water-based ink made of lignin and cellulose ... results that surpassed those of natural balsa wood.

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a raft made of balsa wood logs from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands on the eastern edge of Polynesia to prove that these craft, once used by South American Indians ...

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 ... They help form the pioneer parasols for new ...

Being both a book lover and an artist with an unwavering attention to detail is an incredible combination. Shared by Tamar, this captivating montage shows her crafting a miniature Gothic bookshelf, ...

Create a frame for each window using black-painted balsa wood sheets. For the ghosts ... Scrape partway through the rind with ...

Flowerpots were made with beads, books and cereal boxes ... about the satisfying snap of pinching two soft pieces of balsa wood together to make the perfect tiny plant table, or coming back ...

From an early age, he was drawn to airplanes. He would walk to the top of the hill where the convent stood and launch toy planes made of balsa wood. “We’d fire them around until they got banged up, ...

Sailing from Perus to the Polynesian islands on a raft made from balsa wood, Heyerdahl and his crew traveled 4,300 miles in 101 days. And, obviously, this trip included confrontations with sharks ...

When Patti McGee started skateboarding in the early 1960s, it was just a way to pass the time between surf sessions. A ...

A phone call came to her from a man who had a wood carving that he wanted to show her which turned out to be an intricately designed baldachin made of Balsa wood from 1896. The work (see photo ...

Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy, is planning to donate his entire Bitcoin fortune, drawing comparisons to Satoshi ...