(JNS) A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, highlighting humanity’s prehistoric drive for innovation, the Hebrew ...

NASA seems oddly proud to announce that it plans to use a US Navy spinning machine to train its astronauts for the disorientating tumult of spaceflight. And we gotta admit, the device sounds brutal.

­When making clothes before the 19th century, one important tool was the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel helped improve the task of turning fabric into thread that, again, would be used to make ...

A refinement of a spinning wheel that he made for his wife, Beth, while living aboard their sailboat, the shoe-box sized machines impressed everyone who saw them at the Hansens’ Chimacum area home ...