No doubt many of you have spent a happy Christmas tearing away layers of wrapping paper to expose some new gadget. But did you stop to spare a thought for the “sticky-back plastic” holding your ...

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers have now taken one sticky step in the right direction ...

"I was four years old when I first discovered I had a gift in drawing and it just carried on from there," Dominguez said. After college graduation, Dominguez decided she wanted to do something ...

“When I got the telephone call, I thought, ‘oh shit!'” That call came from Sweden and it was intended to inform its recipient, Andre Geim, that he and his former grad student, Konstantin Novoselov, ...

In this series, Roz Chast transforms found images and text into comic collages. This month’s source material is “Therapeutic Uses of Adhesive Tape,” a slim volume that was published, in 1958, by ...

What are your creative uses of duct tape, that sturdy silvery gray adhesive? ( Christi @TiMiR0) If you tune into Twitter today, you'll see a lot of duct tape humor. Photos show the sturdy, ...

For our series about off-kilter summer festivals, we go to Avon, Ohio, for their annual Duck Tape Festival to see all the creative uses of the product — from fashion to monuments. Avon, Ohio, calls ...

Various standards have been devised within the adhesive industry – ASTM, FINAT, AFERA, PSTC – for measuring the properties of tape-type products, including adhesive bandages, masking, and packaging ...

Long-term functional deficits after a brain injury are difficult to assess in the mouse. If no deficit is observed, researchers could conclude either that the animal has fully recovered or that the ...