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 ...

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and not something on which dermatologists like to take chances. When they see a suspicious-looking mole on the tip of a patient’s nose, they biopsy it and ...

"I was four years old when I first discovered I had a gift in drawing and it just carried on from there," Dominguez said. After college graduation, Dominguez decided she wanted to do something ...

ADRIENNE BEILER and Zac Cupler knew they would stick out at the prom. The formal attire and accessories they fashioned for the high school dance took a year to complete and required about 40 rolls of ...

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers have now taken one sticky step in the right direction ...

“When I got the telephone call, I thought, ‘oh shit!’” That call came from Sweden and it was intended to inform its recipient, Andre Geim, that he and his former grad student, Konstantin Novoselov, ...

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the ...

It's been used for everything from wrapping gifts to protecting blimps. It is so commonplace that it is easy to take for granted. Yet Scotch ® Transparent Tape has an extraordinary history marked with ...

What are your creative uses of duct tape, that sturdy silvery gray adhesive? ( Christi @TiMiR0) If you tune into Twitter today, you'll see a lot of duct tape humor. Photos show the sturdy, ...

In this series, Roz Chast transforms found images and text into comic collages. This month’s source material is “Therapeutic Uses of Adhesive Tape,” a slim volume that was published, in 1958, by ...