The raft was constructed from nine large balsa wood logs tied together with hemp ropes ... The original raft is now on display at the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway. Kon-Tiki, the wooden boat in ...

Everything begins with a fungus, the ringless honey mushroom (Desarmillaria tabescens), a parasite known for its luminous qualities. Combined with balsa wood, it offers an intriguing mix: a stable ...

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AS I gaze in slack-jawed horror at the unbelievable devastation caused by the fires in Los Angeles, one question keeps popping into my head: Those gigantic wedding-cake houses all the celebs lived ...

still looks like a balsa-wood model. Pity the fictional auteur: He can’t obsess over details — no railings, doorknobs, staircases, or windows — because the set designer, Judy Becker ...

"But nowadays, because there's been 60 to 70 years of steel, coal and gas powered ships … the idea of a wooden ship fragment washing ashore really implies that it might have been under the water ...

Metalite was made by a layer of balsa wood bonded between layers of thin aluminum ... The aircraft would have to be placed on a ship and taken through the Panama Canal to California.

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Surveillance video has captured the terrifying moment that a cargo ship rolled onto its side at a port in Istanbul, Turkey, sending workers running for their lives. According to Reuters, ...