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Sleeping Bag Coat for the Homeless Finds Fans in the Fashion World | PBS NewsHour

She wanted to make a coat that transforms into a sleeping bag, originally intended just for Detroit’s homeless. But when she presented it at Aspen Fashion Week a year ago, some in the audience asked where they could get their own coats.

Transgenic silkworms spin glowing fluorescent silk

If your greatest problem with your silk clothes is that they don’t look impressive enough under black light, you’re in luck. Researchers in Japan have genetically engineered silkworms that spin silk that glows under fluorescent light.