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For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics. Now, researchers in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: to deliver medicines into the body.
Exactly 12 minutes later, the group covered the project with the same contraption. Logan Tullai ’25, the project’s mastermind, gathered the blue silk and rushed it to a 57-gallon bin of cold water to ...
Their resulting paper, published in Advanced Materials, suggested a base width for the silk of 6-to-8 micrometers; its thickness is between 100-150 times less. “The beautiful thing is that, despite ...
Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms do produce pink skeins of silk, a team of scientists has discovered. To see if they could produce pre-dyed silk—silk that ...
Brown Recluse Silk Is Stronger Than Steel Because It’s Constructed Like a Cable Thousands of nanotendrils come together to form the flat, super-strong spider silk. Jason Daley - Correspondent.
Within a secret pocket of a brown silk dress, paper notes containing messages written in code were discovered after being hidden for more than 100 years. The messages were cryptic, ...
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 ...
The pumpkin spice craze 2021 is well underway and that includes plant-based creamer for your coffee. Silk is returning its pumpkin spice almond milk creamer and has a new fall flavor - Maple Brown ...
Dressed head-to-toe in brown silk and wearing a pearl necklace -- the same outfit she dons as she picks through the lotus paddies -- Thuan describes her work. It's a painstaking process -- a large ...
Dressed head-to-toe in brown silk and wearing a pearl necklace — the same outfit she dons as she picks through the lotus paddies — Thuan describes her work. It's a painstaking process — a large scarf ...