In 1978, F.W. Lancaster, an information scientist from the University of Illinois, prophesied the dawn of a paperless society in his book Toward Paperless Information Systems. In the book, Lancaster ...

I’ve long been on the hunt for a perfect label. Everyone knows that duct tape leaves a mark, and blue painter’s tape can also be very hard to remove if left for too long. I tried using Post-it notes, ...

Spencer Silver, a research chemist at 3M who inadvertently created the not-too-sticky adhesive that allows Post-it Notes to be removed from surfaces as easily as they adhere to them, died Saturday at ...