Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. "The rubber bands ... sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber ...

A new theory invokes the common rubber band in an attempt to explain dark energy, a mysterious force causing the universe to expand at an ever-increasing pace. Scientists discovered in the late ...

To do this, this Alliance collaboration has infused graphene, the “wonder material” whose strength is 200 times greater than that of steel despite its extremely lightweight nature, into their ...