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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Silly Putty is more than just a child's toy, at least that's what researchers at The University of California believe. A team of scientists in the university's Riverside Bourns College of Engineering ...

[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 ...

Well, let's say it "swallows" magnets. What you have here is, in fact, Silly Putty, but doctored with a healthy sprinkling of mixed iron oxide powder. Iron, as you know, likes magnets. Iron and ...

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