We submerge Silly Putty in gasoline and document how the solvent breaks down the polymer structure and changes its physical ...

Silly Putty invention: A wartime effort to develop synthetic rubber accidentally led to the invention of Silly Putty.

Silly Putty: the rubbery stuff that started the revolution in play putty. Millions of gobs of it have been sold since the 1950s, and it shows no signs of stopping. What would childhood be without this ...

I don’t know anyone who didn’t grow up with Crayola products in their home – do you? So let’s take a look at the company’s history and background. Founded by cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith ...

Here’s the word of the day: viscoelastic. It is a substance that seems solid but slowly drips into a puddle over time. The same substance if pulled quickly snaps and breaks. As part of continuing ...

My first acquaintance with the little stuff came at the home of my buddy, Kenny Hooks, in Albuquerque. Kenny’s dad was a full-bird colonel in the Air Force so Kenny had access to some things that most ...

Silly Putty may no longer be silly, at least according to researchers at Trinity College Dublin. After adding graphene flakes to the novelty toy, the team discovered that it works as a pressure sensor ...

We all knew Silly Putty was special — the elastic-y, liquid-y toy is tons of fun to use. Well, now it has scientific applications, also. Researchers have discover that Silly Putty, when mixed with ...

Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science research centre, hosted in Trinity College Dublin, have used the wonder material graphene to make the novelty children's ...