A new sound-suppressing silk fabric could be used to create quiet spaces in homes, offices and elsewhere, researchers say. The fabric contains a "piezoelectric" material woven through the silk ...

The world is becoming increasingly noisy. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor’s blaring TV to sounds from a co-worker’s cubicle, unwanted noise remains a ...

Each stem contains a minuscule amount of thin, sticky fibers ... Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and ...