Silly putty is stretchy and sticky, and if you're not careful, its ooey-gooey texture can easily get stuck in places you don't want it, like your carpet, couch, and clothes. If you get silly putty ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s easy to dismiss Silly Putty as a kid’s toy. But the ...

Instructables user mikeasaurus has posted a fun and easy guide that describes how to make your own magnetic Silly Putty. Basically, you just take some standard Silly Putty (which is a lot of fun by ...

Silly Putty, the toy ubiquitous in nearly every household and elementary classroom, is the inspiration behind the latest type of wearable sensors. The putty is essentially a polymer, and if combined ...

Graphene, which consists of carbon atoms linked together to form a one-atom-thick sheet, could certainly be described as a wonder material – among other things, it's highly electrically conductive, ...

[Photo: Mike Warren, Instructables] In its current form, Silly Putty isn’t quite as silly as the name suggests. Add in some ferric powder, like what Instructables user Mike Warren did, and now you’re ...

If you see a group of scientists playing with a blob of Silly Putty, they might not be goofing off, they may be working on a technological breakthrough. That turned out to be the case with researchers ...

The inventor of Silly Putty probably didn’t find the substance that silly. Not only did he not make any money off of it, he doesn’t even get a clean claim at the invention: at least two men have ...

Tuesday was the ninth annual Silly Putty Drop, the day when N.C. State science and engineering summer campers see what happens when you drop a 100-pound ball of silly putty from the top of D.H. Hill ...

Fixing a hole in a road should be easy—but the fact that our nation’s highways are littered with potholes is testament to the fact that it’s not quite as straightforward as it sounds. But a new ...

It is sort of an electronics rule 34 that if something occurs, someone needs to sense it. [Bblorgggg], for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious, needs to sense ants moving over trees. No kidding.