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Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor

Posted by timothy on from the will-stick-with-the-regular-kind-for-now dept.

separsons writes "Scientists at the University of South Carolina recently transformed ordinary T-shirts into bulletproof armor. By splicing cotton with boron, the third hardest material on the planet, scientists created a shirt that was super elastic but also strong enough to deflect bullets. Xiaodong Li, lead researcher on the project, says the same tech may eventually be used to create lightweight, fuel-efficient cars and aircrafts."

2 of 213 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How elastic? by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Except it is corn starch, not corn flour. So it should be +1 informative and -1 wrong. Unfortunately, there is no "factually incorrect" mod, so +5 interesting it is...

    Personally I'd argue the point that most mods here are factually incorrect.

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  2. Re:+5 T-Shirt of Nerding by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    He's using sensible rules where a higher AC is better, just like every other stat.