As for plasticine itself, it’s a modeling clay that’s similar to Play-doh except that it is oil-based, where the latter is made of flour and water. (If you’re interested, ...

Thousands of clay caterpillars, like this one glued to a leaf in Hong Kong, were used to measure how often predators are eating insects around the world. Chung Yun Tak / Science It looks like a ...

This has got us out of a sticky situation! Homeowners use PLASTICINE to stop floodwater entering property. Andy Ford held back 2ft of flood water by sealing his 17th century cottage ...

It is 120 years since Plasticine was invented by a Victorian art teacher from Bath. William Harbutt began small scale production of the clay in his basement, using a garden roller to flatten it out.

Plasticine clay: “I use this soft clay because it gives me flexibility, and I like its finish,” she says. Polymer: This type of clay is typically used to make fridge magnets, jewellery, etc.

University of Helsinki researchers have led an international cooperation project revealing the rates of predation from the polar regions to the equator. The researchers placed dummy caterpillars made ...

Viewers around the world have also embraced Morph, a “small, terracotta-skinned plasticine man" living on a tabletop since 1977, and Shaun the Sheep, a secondary character from the Wallace and ...