If you roll an elastic band down a slope, you might be amazed at the range of shapes it takes as it gathers speed. While this may sound like a pointless pastime, three students in the US have devised ...

Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that's the size of a Smart car? It's Joel Waul's rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and ...

Using some plain old rubber strips, scientists have created a whole new shape -- a hemihelix, a long spiral that switches twisting directions over its length. The shape, described in the journal PLOS ...

Students stretch pre-cut rubber bands to their lips, stretch the rubber bands, and then allow them to contract. The rubber bands grow warmer as they expand and cool as they contract. To Conduct ...

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Rubber bands may provide important clues for fabricating a variety of 3D shapes from flat parts, according to results published April 23, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Jia Lui from ...