While bicycling doesn’t produce any pollution, every time you get a flat tire while out on a ride, that rubber tube ends up in a landfill. By one estimate, riders in San Francisco alone throw out more ...

When you’re exploring another planet, the last thing you want to have to deal with is tire damage when AAA is millions of miles away. It’s a concern that prompted NASA to develop an airless titanium ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Inflatable rubber tires would not fare well on the surface of the ...

If you’ve ever been riding your bicycle along through the city or the country on a beautiful day only to suddenly notice you have a flat tire, this solution is for you. Airless car tires have been a ...

The SMART Tire Company, in a partnership with NASA, is aiming to let the air out of your tires. In a good way, however, as the company wants to use the same kind of state-of-the-art airless tires that ...

LOS ANGELES — SMART Tire Co. (STC) is accepting pre-orders for its "METL" airless bicycle tires — made from NASA-developed shape memory alloys — and disclosed it's working on a version for electric ...

An advanced tire technology developed by NASA for use on planetary rovers could be coming to a bike lane near you, with startup the Smart Tire Company leveraging the technology to introduce an airless ...

Air does a lot for a traditional pneumatic tire. For starters, it helps support the tire in supporting the weight of your car. Air also helps absorb impacts, cushioning the tire (and your butt) over ...

Air does a lot for a traditional pneumatic tire. For starters, it helps support the tire in supporting the weight of your car. Air also helps absorb impacts, cushioning the tire (and your butt) over ...

Tires filled with pressurized inner tubes have helped to propel all kinds of bicycles for the past 100 years, but these tires are vulnerable to puncturing and require regular inflation. Airless bike ...