#Adhesive

Author: Tyler Berrigan / Source: Science News for Students This is one in a series presenting news on technology and innovation, made possible with generous support from the Lemelson Foundation. When you have to wrap a gift or mend the ripped page of a book, you probably reach for a piece of

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network In a “world-first”, beer company Carlsberg has replaced their 6-pack plastic rings for glue. After testing out 4,000 different adhesives, the brewer has settled for a glue that is strong enough to hold their beers together for shelving and

Author: Dan Maloney / Source: Hackaday “Gummy” might not be an adjective that springs to mind when describing metals, but anyone who has had the flutes of a drill bit or end mill jammed with aluminum will tell you that certain metals do indeed behave in unhelpful ways. But a new research paper

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?” poet Marie Howe asked in her stunning contribution to The Universe in Verse. She imagined a time before we severed ourselves from “Nature,” a time when there were “no tests to

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News Honeybee royal jelly is food meant to be eaten on the ceiling. And it might also be glue that keeps a royal baby in an upside-down cradle. These bees raise their queens in cells that can stay open at the bottom for days. A big blob of royal jelly,