Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar process ...

In a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Goodyear, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE will work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials on ...

Scientists turned disposable rubber gloves into a reusable material that captures CO2, offering a new way to cut emissions and reduce waste.

Every year, over 100 billion nitrile rubber gloves are produced. They are made from synthetic polymers—a material chemically related to plastic and derived from crude oil. The vast majority is used in ...

A group of French researchers announced today that they’d invented a new form of rubber that “heals” when cut in half. Made of rubber and a component in urine, the rubber represents the gold standard ...