It took more than money and man-power to lay the transatlantic cable. Gutta-percha, a natural plastic extracted from trees in Southeast Asia, sparked a craze in Victorian England, leading to its use ...

Gutta Percha is a natural polymer, chemically the same as natural rubber, however, it has a different molecular shape, giving it different properties. The milky fluid from the gutta-percha tree ...

Few materials are as misunderstood, or misidentified as often, as gutta-percha. Pick up a union case in any antiques shop, and odds are good the tag will say "gutta-percha." Wrong. Most likely the ...

For the past few years, 100-year-old rubber-like blocks from Indonesia have been mysteriously washing up on beaches in the UK and northern Europe. The Titanic has been suggested as one of the possible ...