The chemical structure of the elastomers provides them with an inherent hardness that can be altered. The modified hardness is then measured in terms of of durometer (duro) on a Shore scale. Shore A ...

The material that built the modern world is in crisis. The path to saving it lies not in nostalgia, but in a radical ...

If you spend a fair amount of time outdoors, a pair of rubber boots is a necessity year-round. In fall, there are wet leaves to rake and slop-filled gutters to clean. When snow hits the ground, rubber ...

In cities across the country, police departments have attempted to quell unrest spurred by the death of George Floyd by firing rubber bullets into crowds, even though five decades of evidence shows ...

As police clash with protestors over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others, we’ve seen the resurgence of the rubber bullet, an old-school method of crowd control.

Rubber compounding isn’t quite like other manufacturing environments. It’s a world where chemistry and mechanics come ...

India's rubber industry is poised to thrive amid rising global demand for sustainable rubber, driven by innovative ...

I blame Destin and his interesting sling shot video. Watch it. In this video, he claims that rubber bands do not act like springs. By "acting like springs" of course he means Hooke's law. This ...

Born in 1950s Moscow, Irene Yurovska faced major hurdles as a Jewish woman but rubber bounced into her life and changed its ...

Whether out of mischief or just plain boredom, most of us have fired a rubber band slingshot at some point. It’s a pretty thoughtless task: Hook a rubber band around your thumb, stretch it backwards ...

The public playground in Bandon, a small town on the blustery coast of Oregon, has everything a kid could want. Swings and an orange, twisting slide, even a bright blue boat. But after the playground ...