Seeing or hearing the words “natural fibers” makes many people think about eco-friendliness and clean living. Others might ...

"Even with a textile-based proportion of 30%, the paper is significantly stronger." Scientists find unexpected way to ...

It begins with discarded cotton-based clothing being mechanically ripped ... milled in order to pull apart the interwoven cotton fibers without allowing them to clump together or form knots.

Clothing containing the fiber computer was comfortable and machine washable, and the fibers were nearly imperceptible to the wearer, the researchers report. Unlike on-body monitoring systems known ...

[Yoel Fink] and his team at MIT have announced their creation of a fiber that can sense and store data. In addition, they can use data from a shirt made of the material to infer the wearer’s ...

A group of researchers at Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have ...

Imagine heading out for a run on a cold winter day clad in athletic gear with sensors and microelectronics woven into the very fiber to constantly monitor your vital signs, even running the ...