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 ...

High school students put their engineering skills to the test as they added more and more weights to their balsa wood bridge ...