A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved in its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – An essential lumber product tucked inside the blades of sleek massive wind turbines is experiencing spot shortages of supply: Balsa wood. The lightweight wood is used to build sandwich ...

Ornithopters look silly. They look like something that shouldn’t work. An airplane with no propeller and wings that go flappy-flappy? No way that thing is going to fly. There are, however, a multitude ...