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Someday our clothing may eavesdrop on the soundtrack of our lives, capturing the noises around and inside us. A new fiber acts as a microphone — picking up speech, rustling leaves and chirping birds — ...

Researchers in the U.S. have developed an ultra-thin silk fabric embedded with a special, piezoelectric fibre that can vibrate to cancel out noise in a room. If made into drapery, the researchers say ...