When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Human body armor has come a long way since the steel-plated suits of the ...
Researchers from the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute in China have recovered the remains of a complex scale armor recovered from an over 2,000-year-old Han ...
The arapaima or pirarucu, native to the Amazon. (Jeff Kubina via Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]) (CN) – The design of the ...
Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales going back to ancient times: Romans, Egyptians, and other civilizations would dress their warriors in scale armor, providing both ...
A research team at MIT funded by the U.S. Army has developed a flexible armor using fish scales as inspiration, according to a study published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Produced by a 3-D ...
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More than 6,000 "fish-scale" armor plates and weapons were found when archaeologists excavated a Western Han armory
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 ...
A project led by Robert Ritchie, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at UC Berkeley, and Marc Meyers, professor of nanoengineering at UC San Diego, provides inspiration for fish ...
However, these materials have several drawbacks such as a lack of flexibility, high weight, and high energy consumption during processing. Several biological materials and structures that are found in ...
We've seen scientists examine everything from the structure of sea sponges to the clubbing ability of mantis shrimps in the search for next generation lightweight armor systems. Researchers at ...
Piranha have a well-earned reputation for being able and willing to eat just about anything in their path. One of the few exceptions is the Arapaima, a six-foot long, 300-pound Amazonian predator with ...
High-tech imaging of carp scales by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals remarkable properties that could lead to advanced synthetic materials Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales ...
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