IN reply to “Cosmopolitan's” question in NATURE (vol. xxix. p. 525), I have been many years in Orkney, but do not remember to have seen the women twisting thread with “the palm of the hand on the ...

Twisted fishing line could one day power realistic robots and prosthetic limbs, according to a new study. An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas ...

(Nanowerk News) Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials grow like tiny molecular tapestries, woven ...

All it takes is a little twist, and fishing line and nylon carpet fibers may soon star as the latest in high-technology clothing and industry, report scientists. The secret isn't in complex ...

IN NATURE, January 31 (p. 305), I read some remarks by Prof. E. B. Tylor on a “rude method of making thread by rolling palm or grass fibre into a twist with the palm of the hand on the thigh,” which ...