BENGALURU: Most people see globalisation as a modern phenomenon – a process that opened borders between distant countries, ...

Studies have consistently shown that ballot tabulating machines — the machines that receive paper ballots and electronically count the votes — are more accurate than hand-counting in large numbers.

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

The actress, who plays Glinda in the forthcoming movie musical, looked positively radiant in a staggering number of Swarovski crystals and beads.

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

Serigen Mediproducts has developed products that can be used to fill cavities in bone or bandage non-healing wounds ...

GOTHENBURG - Researchers at a Swedish University say they have discovered that coating silk thread with a conductive plastic ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...