Well, if you followed his method, you’d meticulously measure, cut and glue together pieces of stiff pasteboard according to a plan in your head, supporting them with a frame of balsa wood. Of course ...

After weeks of work, Southeast Missouri high school students are gearing up to put their model bridges to the test ...

More than two dozen area high schools put their skills to the test in the Missouri Department of Transportation’s annual ...

More than one of my childhood birthday presents included a balsa wood airplane. They came as assembly kits that were fun to build but not as much fun as tossing them into the air and watching them ...

MoDOT also partnered with Arkansas State University, University of Missouri-Columbia, Southeast Missouri State University, ...

LignoSat could help change the way we build satellites. This new spaceflight tech has a very retro feel. The world's first wooden satellite, a tiny Japanese spacecraft called LignoSat, arrived at ...

Lameck Beni and Eric Zhao graduated from CMU with degrees in mechanical engineering and are now pursuing their graduate ...

A tour of the San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park has highlights of Brigadier General R.G. Head’s artistic airplane ...

Researchers believe wood could one day replace certain metals in space technology, with potential applications for building colonies on the Moon or Mars. Unlike on Earth, wood is expected to endure ...