a door frame made out of balsa wood was used for the prop. It was eight feet long and three and a half feet wide. It was part of the entrance to the first-class lounge on the ship. Designers ...

Kate Winslet has revealed Leonardo DiCaprio "was kneeling down" in quite shallow water while filming that infamous Titanic ...

and the ship’s brass engine order telegraph ($81,250) — another sign that the public’s fascination with the century-old shipwreck isn’t going anywhere. The 8-foot-long, 41-inch-wide floating hunk of ...

Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength and lightweight composition, two properties that make it ideal for building model structures and airplanes. Researchers from the US and China have ...

And then there are all the little surprises -- that P21 can levitate; that P8's sniffing sounds like a DustBuster; that their scales feel like balsa wood ... it's risky to ship them.

Out in the cold fjord, on a spit of rocky land just a short ferry ride from the city center, Oslo has created a kind of national cemetery for famous ships ... Heyerdahl's famed balsa wood raft ...

More commonly known as the balsa tree, Ochroma is found in many Latin American countries and is the source of the lightweight wood used to make snap-together model dinosaurs, Popsicle sticks ...

He would walk to the top of the hill where the convent stood and launch toy planes made of balsa wood. “We’d fire them around until ... and took care of a boiler on a ship that was so old the boiler ...

And then there are all the little surprises -- that P21 can levitate; that P8's sniffing sounds like a DustBuster; that their scales feel like balsa wood ... it's risky to ship them.