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

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

Hu grew up watching female members of her family working on embroidery. She had the impression that many of her neighbors ...

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 ...

a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk Road. Known for the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West, the trade routes were long believed to have linked ...

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 ...

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 ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...

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 ...

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 ...