TAOS — When The Tonight Show’s host, Jimmy Fallon, praises your product, you might have something there. Three Taos students wowed Fallon — and the nation — Nov. 29 when they showed off their ...

A new chemical process turns cotton into a fire-resistant fabric that nevertheless retains the skin-friendly properties of cotton. State-of-the-art flame retardant cotton textiles suffer from release ...

The US Army has put the call out for new homegrown uniforms that are not only fire retardant but also insect repellent, and a team led by Dr. Ramaswamy Nagarajan at the University of Massachusetts ...

All 20 mill workers at Nova Scotia Textiles have been laid off because the military action in Iraq has led to a shortage of fireproof fabric used by the plant. Ed Macdonald, the plant's president and ...