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 ...

The gara is a single-thread silk hand embroidery, a byproduct of the Parsi community’s trade and travels. Traditionally done on silk with a small sewing needle, the embroidery is an amalgamation of ...

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 ...