The remarkably tough scales of a huge air-breathing fresh water fish in the Amazon Basin named "Arapaima gigas" were the subject of a recent study led by Robert Ritchie of Berkeley Lab's Materials ...
Every tomb has a moment when the earth stops hiding what it guarded. At Jiangxi’s Haihunhou site, that moment arrived when conservators brushed aside the last packed layers of soil, and metal began to ...
Armor pieces from the tomb of the Marquis Haihun Photos: Courtesy of the Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology A set of scale armor dating back to the Western Han Dynasty ...
The hard frame and flexible body of the boxfish could serve as a biological blueprint for body armor, robots and flexible electronics in the future according to researchers at the University of ...