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Project Hail Mary and the real engineering behind the polyhedral space suit

Fireflies don't need batteries: could our clothes glow the way nature does?

The hair on the salon floor is one of our most overlooked natural fibres

Packaging is quietly becoming fashion's biggest innovation space

A torn jacket may not need a needle: self-healing textiles, learned from nature

Donating clothes gives them a second life, but the journey is more complicated than a new wardrobe

Accessories: fashion's highest margins and its least examined footprint

A shirt made from a banana plant: the case for plant-based textiles

Leather, wool, silk: what animal materials cost, and what could replace them

The ocean shows us the truth: what a diver sees of fashion's waste

Fashion didn't always create waste. Culture prevented it.

Your wardrobe is colourful. The process behind it isn't.

If fast fashion disappears tomorrow, what replaces it, and who gets excluded?

How often do you do your laundry? The microplastics question

Stronger than steel, lighter than Kevlar: why we still can't farm spider silk

Is shark skin a new trend? Biomimicry in the fabrics we wear

Louis Vuitton is flamboyant, Cucinelli is subtle: fashion as identity