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There has been no research that explains what gives the curl to curly hair. To understand this, the researchers looked at the microscopic structure of the hair and measure the individual hair cells in ...

A piece of fabric that almost seems to erase light rather than reflect it now exists, and it starts as soft white wool. When you look at it, your eyes have very little to work with. Almost every ...

Why are the red, yellow, and blue colours used in the world's oldest knotted-pile carpet still so vivid and bright, even after almost two and a half thousand years? Researchers at ...

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You've probably noticed that wool garments keep you remarkably warm, even in harsh conditions, but there's more to this natural fiber than meets the eye. The science behind wool's exceptional warming ...

IN an investigation of the histological structure of wool and hair fibres, we have used the following technique in the preparation of sections for electron microscope examination. Sections 0.4–2.0 µ ...

THE flattened cells, forming the imbricated scaly sheath of the keratin fibres, wool and hair, appear comparatively structureless under the optical microscope ; using the electron microscope (R.C.A.