A decapitated field in Colorado is keeping a secret and holding hope of a new crop. Headless sunflower plants trade beauty for brawn, pumping growth energy toward leaves instead of seed. Inside the ...

What’s 1,000 times softer than a rubber tire, but holds its shape and is as tough as metal? The answer is nothing – yet. But a soft material with that combination of properties would be extremely ...

Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains ...

Chinese scientists have developed a new method to directly manufacture rubber and plastic from a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases, an advance that could reduce industrial reliance on ...

Rubber is everywhere in modern vehicles, from tires to timing belts. Eventually, all these items wear out, usually by cracking after countless cycles of stretching and snapping back into shape.