{"id":476731,"date":"2018-05-18T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bb6735c8c6f0a3e24e67c6bb51f294b7"},"modified":"2018-05-18T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:22:07","slug":"researchers-mimic-comet-moths-silk-fibers-to-make-air-conditioned-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=476731","title":{"rendered":"Researchers mimic comet moth&#8217;s silk fibers to make &#8216;air-conditioned&#8217; fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrics made from silkworm fibers have long been treasured for their beautiful luster and refreshing coolness. Columbia Engineering researchers have discovered that fibers produced by the caterpillars of a wild silk moth, the Madagascar comet moth (Argema mittrei), are far superior in terms of brilliance and cooling ability. Not only do the comet moth&#8217;s cocoon fibers have outstanding cooling properties, they also have exceptional capabilities for transmitting light signals and images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrics made from silkworm fibers have long been treasured for their beautiful luster and refreshing coolness. Columbia Engineering researchers have discovered that fibers produced by the caterpillars of a wild silk moth, the Madagascar comet moth (Arg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476732,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476731\/revisions\/476732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}