Patching up a broken toilet seat, holding together a boat engine and keeping a laptop in one piece number among the most unique ways Americans admit to using duct tape, according to new research. A ...

Over the past half a century, duct tape has been keeping NASA's astronauts alive, putting airplanes back together, making race cars speedier and patching up millions of fix-it projects. It's even been ...

A bowling ball was dropped from nearly 148 feet onto layers of duct tape. With only a few layers, the ball punched straight through. More layers slowed it down, but not enough. At around 100 layers, ...

Duct tape can fix anything, even a festival. Avon, Ohio is host to the 10th annual Duct Tape Festival this weekend and tens of thousands are attending for the crafty duct tape floats, costumes, ...

Whether you call it duct tape, 100-mph tape, or speed tape, there’s no doubt that it has helped hold the military together for decades, offering fast and simple fixes to everything from ripped ...

A while ago, a spring in the on/off switch on my 20-year-old TV died. "It's easy", I said to my wife, "I'll just pull the 240V plug out of the wall, discharge the 25,000 volts off the TV set, pull the ...

When nuclear winter strikes, it’s highly likely that cockroaches and duct tape will be all that survives. But just because our new post-apocalyptic wasteland might appear bleak doesn’t mean it has to ...

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The 18-year-old's pink-and-white French-inspired gown took 120 hours to make and included over 14 rolls of Duck Tape. Tejeda said she only had about a week to create the gown — noting she didn’t start ...