One of the most fascinating bits of research in this area is being done by a group at Cornell University's Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory. They've developed a means of actually making transistors ...

India is the largest producer of cotton and the crop is of significant importance to the economy. Closely woven into the cotton story is the fate of over 6 million small and marginal farmers who plant ...

Sometimes a comparison is more revealing than just a fact. India grows far more cotton than the US. But while cotton in the US is grown by large corporations on farms of vast acreage and harvested by ...

Four years ago, Ritika Mittal could no longer ignore her inner voice, which had been nagging her to move out of her comfort zone and do more. Her zone was comfortable enough. She had left Jalalabad, ...

I created this 3D weaving machineRoyal College of ArtOluwaseyi Sosanya, a Nigerian American who graduated from the Royal College of Fine Arts (London Royal Institute of Art). I made this machine as ...