Michael Fraley, a Vice President with Yulex Corporation, cuts a guayule plant that can be used to make natural rubber, in 2008 David Kadlubowski/Corbis Rubber can be made from the latex of several ...

Rubber trees are back. After years and years of virtual absence from the list of potted plant possibilities, they have started appearing in shopping malls and office buildings again. Perhaps it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since the first European explorers crossed the Atlantic and saw Aztec children tossing rubber balls, an idea has persisted: Why not make something besides toys out of that stuff? Three centuries ...