If you have ever seen those plastic strips leading from the wheels of a semi-truck or tractor trailer and wondered what they ...

So [Nikodem] recreated their basic design: strips of thin material wound into a tight spring that forms a tube that can extend and retract. The first prototypes were from paper, which worked but ...

By attaching flexible plastic strips – “covert flaps” – to the top of a wing, the team has demonstrated impressive gains in aircraft performance at low speeds. Wind tunnel tests and RC ...

BottleLoom is the world’s first home bottle strip cutter that helps recycle plastic bottles by shredding them into workable ...

Meanwhile, a roll of green PVC plastic winds its way towards a roller equipped with many circular cutters. They slice it into a four-inch-wide strip. Each of the narrow plastic strips then goes ...

When two objects have opposite charges, they attract. Ask your adult partner to use scissors to cut a strip from the plastic bag that is about 3 cm. wide and about 50 cm. long. Hold one end of the ...