Have you ever marveled at the intricate history woven into the delicate threads of silk, a fabric whose story is as rich and ...

In The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan rewrites history from the perspective of the East, showing how trade and culture shaped the world. This review explores the key routes, empires, and exchanges that ...

Tougher than steel, lighter than cotton, and stubbornly elusive to produce. For decades, spider silk has been the material science has long promised but never quite delivered at scale. Now, a Michigan ...

World Aquatics on Tuesday announced the 2026 World Cup slate, with a ‘Silk Road’ circuit of venues in Eurasia.

The complex molecular structure of spider silk has been successfully copied as scientists spin silk from an artificial gland that mimics nature’s process of producing one of the world’s toughest ...

Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, researchers using new remote sensing technology have discovered a series of cities including a major medieval metropolis “hidden in plain site” above the ancient Silk ...

Archaeologists have found a lost Silk Road settlement including the remains of a submerged necropolis within the world's ...

Silk is one of the most luxurious fabrics for clothing and bedding. Unlike cotton or linen, silk is made most commonly by insects—often the Bombyx mori, a domesticated moth that feeds on the leaves of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a world leader in spider silk technology*, announces today the ...

Mr. Morris’s staging of the Azerbaijani opera about star-crossed lovers arrives in New York. “It’s not about sex,” he says. “It’s about infinity.” By Marina Harss Musicians from around the world, ...

2 Review Roundup: TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) Opens On Broadway A private industry reading will be held for Silk, a new musical created by Meg Fofonoff with a book and additional ...