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 ...

The team from Chalmers University of Technology coated ordinary silk threads with a specialized polymer that is both flexible ...

Imagine a sweater that charges your phone or powers health-monitoring devices while you go about your day. Scientists at ...

By converting temperature differences into electrical energy, these textiles can power a range of wearable devices, from ...

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 ...

The expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

A delightful Carp Koi ring or pendant is an epitome of beauty and sophistication. At the same time, the portrayal of these ...

At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...

Their research is published in Advanced Functional Materials. To make these superhero-like silk threads, the researchers boiled and washed silk moth cocoons in various solutions until all of its silk ...

I guess a jewelry box. Box ... And this one has some very, very special features. It's silk thread on a silk background. Mm-hmm. Yes. Looking at the piece, we see tremendous affluence.

A research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, presents an ordinary silk thread, coated with a conductive plastic material, that shows promising properties for turning textiles ...