Clothing made of cotton and linen is highly hydrophilic. It tends to absorb moisture and disperse it across the fabric, ...

With heatwaves and hot nights predicted this summer, many of us will be left tossing and turning in the heat of our bed. So ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has built a comprehensive database cataloguing the molecular ...

In Texas, cotton is king. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who oversees the state’s vast farming industry, often said, ...

The agency's new data could improve the machine learning models and algorithms improving textile sorting for eventual ...

Three editors test the Buffy Supima Cotton Sheet Set and rate it on comfort, quality, and looks. Read the full review of the ...

Cotton has long been a staple in fashion, but the rise of cheap, mass-produced clothing — known as 'fast fashion' — has led many consumers to buy cheaper, synthetic fabrics. Now, there’s now a growing ...

it is possible to engineer fabrics that are either insulating or conducting. If a single layer of nanotubes can be deposited around the cotton fibre, the configuration of an insulating fibre ...