Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels ...

In 1939, scientists discovered that peeling Scotch tape in the dark produces a visible blue glow due to a build-up of electrical charge and the sudden tearing of the adhesive. The phenomenon, known as ...

As far as office supplies go, Scotch tape is pretty much the hero product. Aside from the very important business-y things we've relied on it for forever (like taping up pictures of our dogs in our ...

Around here, we love a good life hack ,and we’ve found the best ones typically stem from stuff you have laying around the house. Doesn’t it always seem that when we need a lint roller the most, ...

"The screeching sound of peeling tape consists of a train of weak shocks that are generated when the transverse fracture ...

Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called ...

It’s funny what a little Scotch tape can do to a perfectly good face. It turns out with enough tape, subjects look like insane cartoon characters going through astronaut training–and it’s captivating ...

Science never fails to amaze me. Let alone how people figure things like this out. But that's beside the point. Apparently, Scotch tape can be used to develop X-rays. Would've thunk it? Apparently, a ...

NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch ...

There's probably no better tool in the gadgeteer's box than a roll of Gaffer Tape (or duct tape, if you don't mind sticky or crumbly residues). But what about its humble household cousin, Scotch Tape?