CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on its skin (shown in orange). Credit: Yara Haridy CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth are ...

Iron Man-style body armor – or more specifically hi-tech exoskeletons – could be offered to mainstream consumers sooner before later. California SuitX is the company leading the charge on that front, ...

When Ghana unveiled an armored exoskeleton during a public military exhibition, global audiences were stunned. What looked ...

“The Dugout” has moved around a lot over the years, but it is still my favorite place for faux-chat-room-style-humor. Really, it stands head and shoulders above its competitors in this regard. Today’s ...

Ant species that evolved thinner shells traded individual armor protection for increases in colony size, University of ...

Russian state-owned defense corporation Rostec has released footage of a brand-new combat exoskeleton for assault operations in action. The video footage, published by Rostec on Monday, shows a ...

The diabolical ironclad beetle can withstand forces up to 39,000 times its body weight. They can do that, researchers discovered, thanks to hardened casings on each wing that interlock and support the ...

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