Roll of 3M Scotch brand transparent tape. Circa 1960. When 3M began in 1902, they made sandpaper. Soon the sandpaper company invented a line of products that changed household life around the world.

3M has introduced a new adhesive tape that can stick to the skin for up to 28 days for use with medical monitors, sensors and wearables — a significant improvement over the industry's standard wear ...

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 ...

KEEP your eye on the shelves of your local hardware store, where in the next few years you may be able to find new tape from an unlikely source: the gecko. “Geckos have millions of microscopic hairs ...

We see sticky stuff all around us — in our PB&J sandwiches, that bird poop that landed on your shoulder, even the drops of rain on a window. And sometimes we don’t see it at all — like the adhesive ...