Smile and Pyae Maung are one of Myanmar’s most adored couples. She is a famous actress who hails from a film production family, and he is a scratch golfer who played for the Myanmar National Golf Team ...

A simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria — even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax — in minutes, scientists ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Humans have been making silk for centuries. It's a coveted textile for gowns, sheets, and robes. But why is it so expensive? Silk is the product of ...

Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world. Produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and more recently Vietnam, this natural fibre is extracted by only a few skilled ...

Researchers have engineered a silk fabric that can suppress noise by either generating sound waves that interfere with the noise or by blocking vibrations that are key to the transmission of sound.

For years, materials scientists have been trying to figure out a way to give consumers broad access to the benefits of spider silk. As a naturally occurring supermaterial, spider silk is five times ...

A continuous 160-meter stretch of silk twill will be cut and hand-hemmed into $60,000 worth of brightly colored scarves in the popular design “Au Fil du Carré.” “Jungle Love,” a 2000 design by Robert ...