SAN FRANCISCO — Nabil “Billy” Kishek admits it. There are days when he dreams of burning the ball. He has thrown up his arms in exhausted frustration and told his brother, “I’m finished ...

The science of rubber can take a lot of shapes. Sometimes, it can be a ball, both figuratively and literally. Alliance Rubber Co. in Hot Springs, Ark., is partnering with the Mid-America Science ...

Steve Milton makes rubber band balls so large that if they were dropped from the top of a skyscraper, they would bounce clear into space and vaporize the moon. He’s so good at it that he has ...

Living the dream… this rubber band ball took 32 year to make (Picture: Imgur.com) We can think of better ways to spend your spare time over 32 years: writing a novel, bringing up a child or two ...

Archaeologists have found rubber balls, bands, statues and adhesives. Rubber is a latex material produced from the sap of a variety of trees. ... A 50-50 mixture produced a bouncy rubber ball, ...

The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds ...

The biggest rubber band ball in the world. Tony Evans: My name is Tony Evans ... will it bounce or will it explode. When the ball is dropped, I'm hoping and praying it will bounce.

Natural rubber is used to make many different things, including rubber bands, pencil erasers, and balloons. The ball that doesn't bounce is made of a special kind of rubber, called butyl rubber.

Don't try this one at home. After a gloved hand douses a rubber band ball in liquid N, they turn it out onto a wood table. Unsurprisingly, the ball has lost almost all of its bounce after being frozen ...