It started with a simple call to action framed as a question, “Can we start a braids thread?” Twitter user @__AutumnStarr tweeted it and within moments, it had thousands of shares and retweets.

If there’s something more fascinating than watching cleverly engineered industrial machines do their work, we don’t know what it could be. And at the top of that list has to be the machines that do ...

Metallic thread might just be the most underestimated hair accessory ever... Before visions of hair tinsel circa 2001 enter your head, give elastic gold or silver thread a chance. It can instantly ...

Concrete support node with carbon fiber-reinforced plastic hull. Photo Credit: Larissa Born, University of Stuttgart (ITFT), Institute for Textile and Fiber Technologies An interdisciplinary research ...

In a spurt of, well, procrastination (I really, really don't wanna work on a topographical map of the back of campus), I decided to braid the cables on my old PSU. I figured I'd post my current ...

If you are looking for a hairdo that doesn’t require chopping it off, braids and beads might be your answer, writes Srividya Suri. People love to change their ‘usual look’ and replace it with a new ...