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 as their ... This allowed the tiny balsa dinosaur to really take off, flying long enough to have some very close encounters with ...

The annual Seismic Design Competition (SDC), organized at the University of California at Berkeley from March 31 to April 3, ...

Soon after, Guillow designed a line of balsa flying model construction kits—scale models built from a wood frame ... company expanded to a more suitable building nearby. For years, Guillow ...