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 ...

Researchers have created proof-of-concept transparent woods using almost entirely natural materials, and have explored making them electrically ... pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi ...

During this time the balsa wood absorbs up to eight times its ... other research has investigated making living plants that glow for the same goals. The research was published in the journal ...

The produced samples were compared against the natural hardwood (balsa wood ... methods which could making it more accessible and efficient. Perhaps one day DIW wood printing will become as ...

Now, a team led by Ingo Burgert at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has discovered how to tweak the internal structure of balsa wood to make the piezoelectric output 55 times higher. The solution was to ...

But wood's biodegradability is often sacrificed in the process. Researchers are hoping to change that by creating transparent woods from almost entirely natural materials and making them ...