Just a few strips of balsa wood fitted together to form a fuselage ... Sold by the millions, these ready-to-fly gliders and rubber-band-powered airplanes have captured the imaginations of ...

The toy section is a wonderland of low-tech joy. Balsa wood gliders that will inevitably crash into your ceiling light fixture after one glorious flight. Jacks sets that will teach today’s ...

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That’s right. A team led by chemist and woodworking enthusiast Dr. Bharat Baruah at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has figured out how to turn balsa wood into a futuristic building material.

But if you remove the latter two parts from a sheet of wood, what’s left is a paperlike, porous web of cellulose. To do this, Baruah and their undergraduate assistant Ridham Raval placed balsa ...

Together with undergraduate Ridham Raval, Baruah placed balsa wood pieces in a vacuum chamber and removed lignin and hemicellulose using a combination of chemicals that included sodium sulfite ...

Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi-transparent woods by pulling out the lignin and hemicellulose using a ...

Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi-transparent woods by pulling out the lignin and hemicellulose using a ...

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To create this new material, researchers begin with sheets of lightweight balsa wood. They place these sheets in a vacuum chamber, soaking them in a combination of common chemicals like sodium ...