Cuban biochemist Dayron Martin proudly observes his table full of squiggling silkworms. These silkworms, originally from Asia but thriving in Cuba, are spinning fine, white silk. Martin hopes this ...

Somewhere in Michigan, 10,000 silkworms are spinning the future of supermaterials. They labor in the thick air of a warm, humid warehouse, pulling a sticky white strand from a gland in their face and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers who studied silkworms, the larvae of the moth Bombyx mori, have found that higher levels of an enzyme known as NAD+ give them longer ...

The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory At home one evening in 1951, Lucian ...

Drawing is much more to an artist than just another medium. For a painter particularly, it’s the way they evolve ideas and find out who they are as an artist before brush even hits canvas. From ...

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IIT Bombay's Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas has developed a silk production method that spares silkworms' lives, supported by Coal India under its CSR initiative. The three-year ...

In a quiet transformation across rural Kanpur, hundreds of farmers are adding an unlikely crop to their fields: silkworms. Villages in Ghatampur, Patara and Bhitargaon, where sericulture was virtually ...

More than 11,000 drawings made 125 years ago were stashed away for years. They have been meticulously restored, and some will be shown at the Met Museum. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday.

Last week was a holiday week with fewer days of school for my kids, so I decided to do a little experiment with them and the other kids on our street who were willing to participate. What I asked them ...

The 2026 World Cup draw is taking place on Friday, December 5th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington , D.C. at 12 p.m. ET. Without a doubt, this is going to be one of ...