US chemist David McGarvey, Ph.D, at the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and his team of researchers who are a part of a team led by the Natick Soldier Systems Center, is developing ...
Tags: army uniforms, protective suits, Self-Decontaminating Suits
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
Competition may have a high cost for at least one species of tropical seaweed. Researchers examining the chemical warfare taking place on Fijian coral reefs have found that one species of seaweed increases its production of noxious ...
Tags: tropical seaweed, chemical warfare, Fijian coral reefs, chemical defense
U.S. oil prices declined Friday, continuing to pull back from a mid-week rally sparked by the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to continue its easy money policies, while concerns over Middle East supply disruptions continued to fade ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Austin-based bioengineering company Reactive Surfaces announced the general availability of WMDtox, the world’s first self-decontaminating coating that protects firearms, vehicles, equipment and uniforms by neutralizing ...
Odegon technologies, a technical fabric innovator, has launched odour eliminating clothing tags ‘DeoTag’ to absorb under arm smells. The DeoTags absorb under arm smells via a special military-grade nano-porous fibre sewn into ...
1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation, has announced that the United States Patent Office (‘USPTO’) has allowed the issuance of a key patent for the company's unique method to miniaturise the electrical ...
Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to wearers thanks to research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and several other institutions who are developing a nanotube-based fabric that ...
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