Despite decades of research, aspects of natural silkworm spinning remain a mystery. Published in Advanced Materials, the IFM discovery takes researchers one step closer to solving this mystery by ...

Despite decades of research, aspects of natural silkworm spinning remain a mystery. Published in the prestigious Advanced Materials journal, the IFM discovery takes researchers one step closer to ...

The process of creating silk involves the silkworm spinning a cocoon around itself using a single continuous thread of raw silk. These cocoons are then processed, and the silk fibers are unwound ...

"They do everything from raising the silkworms to spinning to weaving, to dyeing with natural dyes, so students get a chance to do all of that," she says, "and we collaborate with the artisans." ...

Until then, scientists should have ample time to investigate the unseen workings at the heart of our planet and discover what Earth’s internal spinning, churning and shape-shifting might hold in ...

Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan ...

R. China Key Laboratory of Silkworm and Mulberry Genetic Improvement, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, Sericultural Scientific Research Center, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, ...

Now, a team of researchers has found compelling evidence that it’s changing shape right under our feet ... previously found that it has been spinning at slightly different speeds than the ...