Car tires may look like simple rubber, but they're built from a surprisingly complex mix of materials designed for grip, strength, and durability.

Hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years before Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process that made commercial rubber viable, Mesoamerican peoples were carrying out a similar process ...

The roots of Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion known as TK that has proven to be a valuable alternative to natural rubber trees. Photo credit: Farmed Materials. A tire company is ...

In a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Goodyear, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and BioMADE will work with Ohio-based Farmed Materials on ...

Narrator: Have you ever wondered why all car tires you see are black? It wasn't always like this. When automakers first started using rubber tires, they were white, the color of natural rubber. And ...

Materials have been shaping our world since the dawn of human civilization. Among them, rubber, a versatile and adaptable material, has a wide range of domestic and industrial uses, from tyres and ...

There’s still a lot of petroleum hanging onto electric cars, specifically around the rims. It takes about seven gallons of oil to make each standard car tire, and the world produces more than 2 ...

Catheters, medical and sporting gloves, tires, condoms and some 50,000 other products depend on the more than 15 million tons of natural rubber produced every year, a researcher at Ohio State studying ...