Rockville, April 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per Fact.MR, a provider of market research and competitive intelligence, the global balsa wood market is expected to garner US$ 218 million by 2033 ...

It’s often one of the earliest science facts learned in grade school: Wood is a natural insulator.For those who need a refresher, that simply means the material generally isn’t a great ...

Balsa wood is a lightweight and easy-to-use hardwood. However, it has a few downsides you should consider before using it in any home improvement projects.

For years, balsa wood has been a key component in the giant rotor blades on the top of wind turbines. Most of it comes from the rain forests of South America and, in particular, from Ecuador.

An electrochemical transistor made from balsa wood opens up the possibility of embedding sensors and other electronic devices in plants, which could help in agriculture and forest management.

c) Submersion colonization of balsa wood by rhizomorphs and mycelium of D. tabescens. d) After 1 to 4 months of incubation, cleaned blocks of wood exposed to air, intensifying their bioluminescence as ...

Modified logs dating to about 476,000 years ago might be the oldest evidence of wooden structures, a new study finds. “It’s a challenge to preconceptions about what are considered ...

Imagine a glow-in-the-dark designer desk, or wooden fence posts that guide you home with their eerie light. Scientists in Switzerland have developed a way to make glowing wood, with the help of a ...

Some 500,000 years ago in central Africa, ancient human relatives chopped down trees and transformed the wood into digging tools, wedges and what might just be the world’s earliest-known wooden ...

Wood consists of three main components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. But if you remove the latter two parts from a sheet of wood, what’s left is a paperlike, porous web of cellulose.