The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.

Have you ever marveled at the glossy perfection of someone's straightened hair and wondered about the magic behind it? There are a few techniques that can be used to get bone-straight hair, but ...

The world is full of legendary highways but none can compete with the Silk Road – the storied route set to fascinate the masses at the British Museum in a new exhibition (September 26 to ...

Museums are continually searching for ancient counterparts to contemporary phenomena, and the British Museum’s new show Silk Roads appears to be just that: an exploration of the ancient ...

“Consistent with the natural spinning process of spiders, we report a high-efficient spinning strategy that enables the mass preparation of multifunctional artificial spider silk at different ...

Silk Roads is about lots more than silk. John Masefield summed up the allure of trade with the east in his poem Cargoes: “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,/Rowing home to haven in sunny ...

One thing the best natural curly hairstyles never lack is versatility and dimension. Whether you have 2A waves or 4C coils, retro-inspired looks like the wolf cut and sleek half-and-half updos ...

Young people may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but natural wine appears to be among their favorite choices. At Frog, a wine bar in Brooklyn, young people come for the casual ...

From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk Roads. For millennia, people travelling the Silk Roads carried objects, ideas ...

We usually turn to commercial mouth fresheners. That's because we probably don't know about these natural options. You'll be surprised to see how these foods work as mouth fresheners. When it comes to ...