Explore the silk thread innovation turning clothes into charging stations, harnessing body heat for sustainable, battery-free ...

Imagine a sweater that powers electronics to monitor your health or charge your mobile phone while running. This development faces challenges because of the lack of materials that both conduct ...

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove ...

A research team led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has presented a common silk thread coated with a conductive plastic material that exhibits promising properties for converting ...

These threads are coated with mucus from the insect which makes them sticky. The web emits a bioluminescent glow, which they use to lure insects into their sticky silk snares. 5 / 11 ...

Rising Demand for Luxury Textiles: Silk’s reputation as a premium fabric drives its popularity across high-end fashion and ...

After this extraction process, the silk threads are spun and dyed using natural ingredients such as pomegranate skins, indigo, saffron and walnut shells, giving the fabric its vibrant, distinctive ...

The silk thread was coated with a conducting polymer, a plastic material with a unique chemical structure that allows for ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have ...