EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing his ...

A Florida man hopes to make it into the record books with his massive rubber band ball. Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a ...

Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that's the size of a Smart car? It's Joel Waul's rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and ...

What happens when a 300-pound ball is dropped from 50 feet in the air? A certain amount of destruction, naturally, but also some science-based learning. This is the third year for the Mid-America ...

Rubber was an essential material for many people of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, who used it to make objects such as sandals and rubber bands. However, it is perhaps best known as the material used to ...

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.” But such an ...

It's over six and a half feet tall, 25 feet in circumference, weighs nearly 10,000 pounds, and everybody says it stinks. No, we're not talking about Kanye West's ego, we're talking about Joel Waul's ...