FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Sept. 24, 2015) -- A 500,000-gallon, 113-ton Fort Leonard Wood water tower near the post's veterinary clinic was raised an additional 34 feet Friday. Under the supervision ...

The contest challenged students to build a two-and-a-half foot tower that could hold their body weight. The supplies they were given was two ounces of balsa wood and glue. The project taught ...

Schematic illustration of preparation and mechanism of delignified balsa wood-based water evaporation-induced generator (DBWG). The left showed the transpiration of water, nutrients, and ions along ...

it readily repels water—samples soaked in water and in a strong acid bath for 30 days scarcely weakened, whereas samples of balsa wood tested under similar conditions lost two thirds of their ...

Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength ... and they see a solid future for the material in water purification devices, supercapacitors, and rechargeable batteries.

by pulling potable water out of thin air. The team's invention uses a newly developed composite material based on porous, lightweight balsa wood shaped into small cubes; these are installed into a ...

New York City’s last remaining wooden water tower builders are like the ... Isseks ships the wood for their towers from Philadelphia, while the Rosenwach company mills their cedar wood in ...