Dr. Ben Allardyce and Ph.D. candidate Mr. Martin Zaki from Deakin's Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) have delivered a ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has just made a scientific breakthrough by creating a new type of silk inspired by caddisflies, ...

Silkworm farming in China involves a fascinating blend of ancient techniques and modern technology to efficiently harvest ...

A team of international researchers has used a new 3D-printing technique to create microfibers just 1.5 microns thick. As ...

He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Dietary fiber is a type of carbohydrate that helps support digestive health. It's found in fruits ...

Researchers have developed a high-resolution embedded 3D-printing technique that enables the fabrication of ultra-fine fibers ...

Trump had planned to commute the life sentence of the founder of the Silk Road online drug bazaar at the end of his first term, according to former U.S. officials and a political consultant who ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian blue ingot. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman ...

Ulbricht, known by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” founded Silk Road in 2011. Its services were available globally and could be accessed via a Tor browser, which protects users’ anonymity.

Cup containing Egyptian blue pigment from Pompeii. (photo credit: diffendale is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.) A rare Egyptian blue ingot weighing 2.4 kilograms and measuring 15 centimeters in ...

Sleeping on silk is the same idea, just fancier due to the higher-quality material. While silk wouldn’t have made sense for me at 10 or even 15, it has become a go-to in adulthood and is less ...