Slime, foam, glass — not the typical ways to stopping bullets cold, yet all three at the base of the most outstanding body armor breakthroughs of the year. In 2017, the U.S. military pioneered the use ...

Older than the dinosaurs, slime from a primitive creature could be used for future bulletproof body armor. The hagfish is more than 300 million years old and it lives out of sight in the deepest ...

For decades, protection lagged far behind lethality on the battlefield. The only practical protection from bullets and dangerous flying objects was steel, but weight forced a tradeoff between ...