The smart fabric will be designed to regulate the temperature of the wearer’s skin — keeping it at 93° F — by adapting to temperature changes in the room. When the room gets cooler, the fabric will ...

A new robotic breakthrough out of South Korea may soon turn your clothes into assistive tech. Researchers have found a way to mass-produce ultra-thin "fabric muscles" that can flex and lift like human ...

Not exactly genetic modification, a new approach combines plant breeding and insights into cotton’s genome to help ensure you can have jeans in the future. Products derived from the cotton plant show ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports explores the use of bio-organic phase change materials (PCMs) to improve the thermal comfort of cotton fabrics. Researchers developed PCM composites using ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change impacts, from hotter temperatures to more droughts and floods, threaten much of the world's cotton production, risking worsening shortages, higher ...

The U.S. is the world's leading cotton exporter, with an industry estimated to generate more than $21 billion of products and services a year. Drought and climate change are having an effect on the ...

A new NASA-funded study finds that cotton yields are likely to increase in the Southeastern United States if carbon dioxide levels continue to rise as projected this century, and if farmers can adapt ...