Science

Why Rubber Rules

When Charles Goodyear figured out how to take the smelly sap from some trees and turn it into the rubber of industry, the finished, stretchy product bounced a crazy diverse number of materials out of their soon-to-be former jobs. Like sheep intestines. Ick.


January 31, 2012
Science

How Glass Changed The World

You probably haven’t given much thought to the fact that there’s a slab of chemically strengthened glass in your pocket, deflecting blows from keys or any other hard objects that might scratch against it, or that the hundreds of millions of similar slices of glass lining pockets around the world wasn’t possible not so long ago.