JERUSALEM — While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational ...

Donna Panner was heartbroken when her last, and longest-living, rabbit, Hef, died two years ago. She still hasn’t replaced him. But the 48-year-old Pomona, NY, resident, did figure out a way to keep ...

How do you spin yarn on a charkha? The video above shows that it needs two hands, as Mahatma Gandhi, for one, knew only too well. But not, evidently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose videos and ...

The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they’re forced to spin. If this research finding is translated into a marketable process ...

Sorry, Kevlar. Spider silk loaded with carbon nanotubes may be the burliest fiber around. When spritzed with the tiny tubes, spiders spin superstrong, supertough ...

Publication of ENCODE data drives innovation in data mining. There can be few scientists who have not used a brightly coloured highlighter pen to mark the most interesting parts of a research paper, ...