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 ...

CORVALLIS — An incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University has produced a new pressure-sensitive adhesive that may revolutionize the tape industry — an environmentally ...

Origami artists can turn paper into all manner of ingenious objects. It’s unlikely, though, that anyone has tried to make a functioning medical lab that way – until now. With the help of some bits of ...

Stanford engineers designed a robotic gripper equipped with gecko-inspired adhesives to remove space debris. Researchers extensively tested the adhesive material’s ability to withstand the brutal ...