Imagine a glow-in-the-dark designer desk, or wooden fence posts that guide you home with their eerie light. Scientists in ...

After testing various wood types, Schwarze found balsa wood to be able to hold on to its stiffness and compressive strength after being exposed to the fungus. Through spectroscopy, a scientific ...

High school students put their engineering skills to the test as they added more and more weights to their balsa wood bridge models, waiting anxiously for the sound of that first crack.

The team observed how it snuck into the balsa wood samples by degrading lignin, but that the remaining cellulose was enough to keep the balsa wood strong. Blending the fungus and wood in this way ...

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Want to know about all the types of wood in Minecraft? Wood is one of Minecraft’s most iconic resources. It is a starter resource for many players, jumpstarting their tools and allowing for the ...

“I remember that they had taken that set wall down and basically rebuilt it with balsa wood, which balsa wood is like a really light, easily breakable wood that they use a lot for stunts and ...

Anne Michaels has won the 2024 Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational saga that follows a family over the course of more than a century. Michaels accepted the prize at a ...

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Lauded filmmaker Michael Mann gave a special presentation on his “Michael Mann’s Ferrari Expanded” website at the Red Sea International Film Festival, where he walked the audience through ...