Researchers took inspiration from the magnificent riflebird while developing a textile that reflects only about 0.13 percent ...

The color "ultrablack"—defined as reflecting less than 0.5% of the light that hits it—has a variety of uses, including in ...

The tiny black dress may be a fashion classic, but making the tiny, perfectly black dress is more a job for scientists. In ...

A tropical bird’s feather structure inspires a new, wearable ultrablack fabric.

To find a better way to reproduce this cool color, a team at Cornell University looked to nature. Specifically, a bird called ...

A UBC research team has developed a cleaner way to produce rayon, a popular fabric used in clothing for more than a century.

The material—inspired by the extraordinary dark feathers of a tropical bird—reflects only 0.13% of the light that falls upon ...

When Christina Vassallo was head of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, she landed several substantial grants from the Pew Center ...

With help from designer Heidi Caillier, the supermodel trades minimalist glamour for a playful, grandma-chic escape that ...

What we think of as polyester fabric is most often actually a blend of polyester and cotton, which has proven very difficult ...

The Supreme Court held that the without aid of power exemption cannot apply when any essential step, like stentering, uses electricity. Continuous multi-unit processing is treated as a single ...

Iron-on circuit; thermal drawing of e-fibers; recyclable, self-healing circuits; 'living metal' bioelectronics.