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 ...

Since adhesive tape became widely available in the 1930s, conservators have often used it to hold artefacts together — including some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But within decades, the polymers in the ...

A way to modify sticky tape inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, could make it 60 times stronger, while remaining easy to peel off. There are two main types of adhesives: strong ...

Researchers in France have made new discoveries about the way in which sticky tape peels away from surfaces. Stéphane Santucci and colleagues at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon used observations ...

Researchers have taken the fight to online hackers with a giant leap towards realizing affordable, accessible quantum communications, a technology that would effectively prevent the decryption of ...

Woodpeckers, squirrels and other animals are getting stuck on the sticky tape used to trap spotted lanternflies, prompting an outcry from animal rehabilitation centers and other nature groups. Sticky ...

Robots made from sticky tape and dust can morph into various shapes under the direction of a magnetic field. They may one day be able to crawl into computers to fix broken circuits or even inside the ...

Has yours got it too? IT’S one of the most magical times of the year. But something that can dampen the excitement surrounding Christmas is having to wrap presents ...

Many well-meaning Lancaster County residents are falling victim to a horrible solution-gone-wrong that is killing birds, animals, pollinators and other beneficial insects by the thousands. Trees in ...

KIM: AND I AM KIM LEMON. WGAL NEWS 8’S SUSAN SHAPIRO EXPLAINS WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP BIRDS AND OTHER ANIMALS FROM GETTING HURT. SUSAN: THIS WOODPECKER ARRIVED AT RAVEN RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER IN ROUGH ...