The western Indian state of Gujarat is fast emerging as the next major auto hub in India, attracting global OEMs and supporting industries setting up facilities to cater to the fastest growing ...

Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world's rubber trees. Do we need to find alternative sources of rubber before it's too late? Natural rubber is a ...

The U.S. automotive industry has been plagued with plant shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a global semiconductor chip shortage. Now raw material for rubber is in short supply. Rubber ...

For the past century, tire manufacturers have sought alternatives to the natural rubber grown on Southeast Asian rubber plantations. Dependence on a single region for the critical raw material has ...

Tyres. Elastic bands. Balloons. Shoes. There's a long list of items that are made from rubber: the waterproof, durable substance that's all around us, almost all of the time. "You could not have ...

Molecular singularity is a unique concept that is characteristic of polymers. Despite being a minor component of materials, molecular singularity dominantly governs their properties. Molecular ...

Part wiki, part roleplaying game, part storytelling community, the SCP Foundation has spent the past six years lurking in one of the darkest corners of the Internet. Caught in the sweet spot between ...

It seemed particularly apt at IRC ‘96 to present the life history of natural rubber on what was almost exactly 500 years to the day (11 June 1496) that Christopher Columbus returned from his second ...