How do you spin yarn on a charkha? The video above shows that it needs two hands, as Mahatma Gandhi, for one, knew only too well. But not, evidently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose videos and ...

The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they’re forced to spin. If this research finding is translated into a marketable process ...

JERUSALEM — While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational ...

Since its founding in the mid-1980s, the Berkshire Hills & Dales Spinners Guild has been meeting once a week to play with fiber. Some card, some spin, and some knit. Enjoying the chance to socialize ...

If you've ever wanted to live vicariously through Into It. Over It. frontman Evan Weiss, look no further than the just-released video for 'Spinning Thread.' The video -- directed by Max Moore -- ...

Sorry, Kevlar. Spider silk loaded with carbon nanotubes may be the burliest fiber around. When spritzed with the tiny tubes, spiders spin superstrong, supertough ...

It is one of the most recognisable representations of a woman in the history of art, but the Venus de Milo leaves one question unanswered: what exactly was she doing with her arms? The ancient Greek ...

Publication of ENCODE data drives innovation in data mining. There can be few scientists who have not used a brightly coloured highlighter pen to mark the most interesting parts of a research paper, ...