If you’ve recently visited the construction adhesive aisle at a home center, you may have noticed that there are A LOT of different adhesives on the shelves. And with that many choices, choosing the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. All sorts of crafts, carpentry projects, and DIYs require the use of wood glue. But which version of this ...

Imagine a glue so strong that a quarter-sized patch of it could suspend an elephant from the ceiling.That\'s what a team of scientists including an Indiana University biologist has discovered: an ...

Q. I recall that you stated in your column that the adhesives we use for wood are stronger than the wood itself. True? If so, I need to know what factors are critical in making a strong joint. The ...

The strongest adhesive in the world isn’t Gorilla Glue, Krazy Glue, or Rhino Glue. It’s Callobacter Crescentus, the not-so-catchy name of a bacterium discovered two years ago that adheres to rocks in ...

Krazy Glue is so confident in being the strongest glue the world has ever seen, it challenged the Strongest Man in the World (who also happens to play The Mountain on Game of Thrones) Hafthor ...

The promise of reusable sticky things, from Post-it Notes to Blu Tack, has never quite been fulfilled. They're just never quite as sticky the second time around, or the third. But now, a team of ...

There seems to be a lot of misinformation that exists (word of mouth and Internet sources) about the role of pressure when gluing wood. So, let’s look at this topic in detail. (Epoxy adhesives have ...

A common bacteria that clings to the inside of water pipes stays in place with the strongest glue known to exist in nature, scientists say. The researchers found that the bacteria Caulobacter ...

Whether it was the first synthetic adhesive produced in 1869 or the “super glues” of today, glues or adhesives have one purpose: They bond two solid materials together. In the past 15 years, the term ...