Materials stay cooler when water evaporates off of them, but once all the water is gone, the cooling effect stops. Bearing this in mind, MIT scientists have developed a camel fur-inspired material ...

Fur is probably the most polarizing fabric in fashion, for extremely obvious reasons. Animal activists and conscientious fashionistas can't co-sign the slaughter of an animal for its pelt in order to ...

Renewable, natural and long-lasting, some claim that it’s time for us to take another look at real fur - or maybe even embrace it. But as Ruth Stokes found out, not everyone is convinced It was on the ...

Animal-derived materials come with significant animal welfare and environmental costs, while petroleum-based synthetics ...

Three engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on Polar bear fur. The results, published ...

Engineers have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on polar bear fur. The results are already being developed into commercially available products.