This sticky goo may be fun for your kids to play with, but getting it off your carpets, furniture upholstery and clothing is tricky. The folks at Crayola, the brand that bought Silly Putty in 1977, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aibekov Daniyar / Getty Images Silly putty is stretchy and sticky, and if you're not careful, its ooey-gooey texture can easily ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have combined nanomaterial graphene and the kid's toy Silly Putty, creating a sensor sensitive enough for a range of applications, including measuring spider ...

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

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 is a strong, revolutionary material made of elemental carbon that can be stretched to one-atom thick sheets while maintaining its valuable properties. It conducts heat ten times better than ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists in Ireland are using a rather unexpected material to make an extremely sensitive pressure detector: Silly Putty. The Irish researchers combined the kids' plaything with a special form of ...