A team led by chemist and woodworking enthusiast Dr. Bharat Baruah at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has figured out how to turn balsa wood into a futuristic building material. The most ...

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But if you remove the latter two parts from a sheet of wood, what’s left is a paperlike, porous web of cellulose. To do this, Baruah and their undergraduate assistant Ridham Raval placed balsa ...