but the mathematics behind origami can lead some practitioners past the pure art to more practical structures, like this folding ballistic barrier for law enforcement use. The fifty-pound Kevlar ...

By Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair. But visiting is one thing; buying is another.

That discovery made way for Kwolek’s invention of industrial fibers that today protect and save thousands of lives. Most notable among these is Kevlar ®, a heat-resistant material that’s five times ...

Artist Emma Majury demonstrates some basic artistic techniques in the realms of drawing, painting, photography, printing, collage, and sculpture. A series of short films for primary schools ...

The material, a sibling of the space-blanket polymer Kevlar, has been developed by chemical giant DuPont and tested by NASA at its White Sands Test Facility (WTSF) in New Mexico. The tests showed ...

Today, DuPont (NYSE: DD) announces a collaboration with Aero Tec Laboratories (ATL), a leader in safety fuel systems and flexible fluid containment technology, to bring long-term innovation to the ...

In 2009, the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant in Arzamas, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 250 miles east of Moscow, revealed a new variant of the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier. The BTR-82A—a 17-ton ...

When considering the motors needed to propel the robot and the batteries needed to run everything, there’s then precious little weight left for weapons systems and armor plating. Thus ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

To put trims on an armor piece, select your chosen template, armor piece, and ore. Take these ingredients to a smithing table, place your chosen template in the left-most slot, followed by your ...

Now, the looming Roman sculpture is finally back on display Julia Binswanger An exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens explores how Western intellectuals viewed the ...

Despite it having only five bullets, it’s still a killer in the right hands because of how one bullet can kill anyone, even if they’re wearing Kevlar armor. But it’s expensive when compared ...