When exposed to air, an eerie green light is emitted by these neatly arranged chunks of hybrid living material, created by ...

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

A team led by fungal researcher Francis Schwarze is currently pursuing a new type of composite material based on hardwood: ...

Swiss researchers have developed a new kind of wood that glows in the dark. To achieve the breakthrough, they combined balsa ...

Credit: Empa/Cover Images Swiss researchers have developed a new kind of wood that glows in the dark. Scientists at Empa's ...

Well, if you followed his method, you’d meticulously measure, cut and glue together pieces of stiff pasteboard according to a plan in your head, supporting them with a frame of balsa wood. Of course ...

A team from Empa is creating luminous wood by using honey fungus, which glows thanks to a natural bioluminescence process.

Gifts wrapped in marbleized papers need nothing more than a simple bow to look special. Wide silk chiffon ribbon has enough ...

More than one of my childhood birthday presents included a balsa wood airplane. They came as assembly kits that were fun to build but not as much fun as tossing them into the air and watching them ...

It's tough to find things that are actually manufactured in the Commonwealth. Here are 12 locally made products to consider ...