Meet Stephanie Kwolek, the female chemist who invented Kevlar. The invention came about accidentally while she was looking ...

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 ...

Someone followed Zygielbaum home during a recent election, prompting the local sheriff to recommend he start wearing body armor ... elections official wearing a Kevlar vest.

with a history extending as far as the 1500s when there were attempts to make metal armor that was bulletproof. By the 20th century there was ballistic nylon, but it took kevlar to produce ...

For the last several decades, modern body armour has been made from synthetic fibres such as Kevlar, combined with either metal or ceramic plates known as trauma plates. While good at stopping ...

It ends in a tie. Or consider a more violent analogy: Say you are shot while wearing a Kevlar vest. The body armor may shield you from the bullet. What it can’t do is disarm and disable your ...

Even while wearing Kevlar body armor, warfighters often face grave injury when shot due to blunt force trauma. Davidson, a North Carolina-based Greenhill AntiBallistics Corporation, may have found ...

It’s a little strange that, considering how long people have been wearing jeans and riding motorcycles, the idea of ri ...

It has not yet been made clear how many officers opened fire, from which law-enforcement agencies, and if a weapon was found ...

The Body Armor Innovation Award celebrates groundbreaking advancements in personal protection.

BRIGHTON, Colo. ‒ Bulletproof glass. Security cameras. Panic buttons. As the elected county clerk and recorder in a suburb of Denver, Josh Zygielbaum's days are normally filled with marriages ...