Engineers have developed silk materials that can wrinkle into highly detailed patterns -- including words, textures and images as intricate as a QR code or a fingerprint. The patterns are stable, but ...

A staff member works at a silk factory in Macclesfield on Aug 11. The town in northwest England has a deep-rooted silk tradition.[Photo by Li Ying/Xinhua] The town of Macclesfield in northwest England ...

NANJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- A growing number of visitors are flocking to the Suzhou Silk Museum, one of only two state-owned museums in southern China dedicated to silk. The other one is the China ...

Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic ...