Imagine a single-coloured piece of cloth that suddenly displays a colourful pattern when the ambient ... Visitors can warm up the fabric samples and see colour changing effects using hairdryers.

Follow this story and more by signing up for health, science, and environment ... Trace all of the pattern lines on the top layer of fabric. Cut along the solid line through all three layers ...

"We rely on intuition and trial and error, but translating that into precise, predictive science ... pattern—just knits and purls—you can essentially encode instructions for how the fabric ...

For example, they printed patterns that can harvest and store electricity onto fabrics. The potential for ... a new materials science journal from publisher Cell Press. "We used a 3D printer ...

During graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, Matsumoto came across an unusually knotty stitch while knitting a pattern for ... of the resulting fabric. Yarn on its own isn ...

A trio of physicists from the University of Rennes, Aoyama Gakuin University, and the University of Lyon have discovered, through experimentation, that it is friction between fibers that allows ...