Designers asked to breathe new life into Rupert the Bear have dressed him in a hoodie. The Entertainment Rights media firm, which currently owns the character, hired a company to come up with ...

Engineers have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled on polar bear fur. The results are already being developed into commercially available products.

A sweater knitted from a fibre that mimics polar bear fur offers as much warmth as a down jacket, despite being one-fifth as thick. Each strand of the fabric, an aerogel coated with polyurethane ...

This New Scientist article, usually accessible only to subscribers, is made available for free by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, Australia Ötzi the iceman, preserved in ice in ...