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 ...

One thing I liked about our old model train layout at Christmas (yes ... supporting them with a frame of balsa wood. Of course you’d make sure the theater was in proper O gauge, the size ...

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 ...