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 ...

For any project involving small screws or tiny pieces, you can use painter’s tape to ensure that none of them go missing.

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 ...

Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition ...

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 ...

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 ...