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 ...

Car tires switched from inner tubes to a tubeless design for safety reasons. Inner tubes were easy to puncture and prone to ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

China could solve its acute shortage of rubber – a resource it has traditionally relied on imports for to meet its domestic demand – after reporting a technological breakthrough in the extraction of ...

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 ...