Generations of women have reached for a little silk square as an essential accessory, but this season, the foulard is getting freaky On a drizzly July day in Paris, an Olympic-swimming-pool-size silk ...

Somewhere in Michigan, 10,000 silkworms are spinning the future of supermaterials. They labor in the thick air of a warm, humid warehouse, pulling a sticky white strand from a gland in their face and ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Jimmy McNulty and Lester Freamon they policed the tough streets of Baltimore, now Dominic West and Clarke Peters are saddling up and headed Beyond The Silk Road. The Wire alums travel ...

Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny molecular interactions act like natural glue, holding silk proteins together as ...

Six years ago, a low-quality web animation on Muslim Kids TV sparked an idea that would become “Time Hoppers: The Silk Road,” the first theatrically released animated feature made by and for the ...

IIT Bombay's Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas has developed a silk production method that spares silkworms' lives, supported by Coal India under its CSR initiative. The three-year ...

Procter & Gamble is leaning into luxury with its Pampers Prestige line sold in China, which uses silk fibers in the diapers. The product is part of the company's strategy to use innovation to entice ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The fabric is soft and easy to care for Jackie Tempera is an award-winning journalist and celeb-obsessed writer constantly on the hunt ...

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers. Chroma Zero immerses you in a universe of mystery, color, ...

Our critic explains how to bring out the effortless insouciance of a quintessentially French accessory. By Vanessa Friedman Scarves are to Frenchwomen, or at least the stereotypical Frenchwoman, what ...

These twisting threads wrapped in thinner, looping strands are the silk of an Australian net-casting spider (Asianopis subrufa), a consummate ambush predator. Instead of building a web and waiting for ...