A group of French researchers announced today that they’d invented a new form of rubber that “heals” when cut in half. Made of rubber and a component in urine, the rubber represents the gold standard ...

Many people know that most of Germany’s army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic ...

May 18 (UPI) --Scientists have developed a new type of rubber that is super-adhesive. When the material is combined with a special catalyst, it becomes self-healing. Researchers created the rubber ...

For the past century, tire manufacturers have sought alternatives to the natural rubber grown on Southeast Asian rubber plantations. Dependence on a single region for the critical raw material has ...