A bullet hits traditional Kevlar (L) and the new liquid armour (R). In the tests, scientists used a large gas gun to fire ball bearing-shaped metal bullets at over 300 metres per second into two test ...

Police and Massey University design students have teamed-up to put old Kevlar to good use. Redundant armour plates from old out-of-warranty stab-resistant body armour (SRBA) have been recycled into a ...

Researchers at BAE systems in Bristol combined a "shear-thickening" liquid with the existing material used in bullet-proof vests - called Kevlar - to create the new armour. The chemical formula of the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Prosecutors indicted a South Korean company and five of its employees on Thursday for stealing the recipe for making Kevlar body armour from the DuPont Co. The indictment in U.S.

A new body armour — bullet-proof custard — could help save soldiers’ lives. It is made up of a substance that absorbs the force of a shot or shrapnel by thickening and hardening instantly on impact.

It's not dog bites or cat scratches that have forced animal cruelty investigation officers to put on body armour, but the very real threat of attack from people. "We had officers that were assaulted ...