Archaeologists have uncovered rare fragments of 3,000-year-old textiles stained purple — a color considered the height of royal fashion at the time — in southern Israel. The archaeologists discovered ...

(Nanowerk News) In previous studies, solar cells have been installed on the surfaces, layered on top, or weaved into the threads of textiles. During the three-year Sun-powered Textiles project, ...

In the future, your clothes might come from vats of living microbes. Reporting in the Cell Press journal Trends in Biotechnology on November 12, researchers demonstrate that bacteria can both create ...